CONTENTS. xi 



CHARTER XYI. 



FRIENDS IN NEED. 



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A Lazy Driver Reminiscences of Holly Suspicions of Underhand Conduct 

 Crossing a River At Klerksdorp My Novel-reading Servant Bolts 

 Kind Friends Half a Day's Shooting Two Hyaenas done for A 

 Driver is Lent to me The Boers at Klerksdorp The Brothers Rous 

 Immense Foolishness of the English Mr. Rous on Nile Explorations 

 Superstitions of the Boer A Witch called in The Prettiest Village in 

 South Africa Abundance of Fruit Well-conditioned Porkers A Look 

 Bound Fruit not to be had for Love or Money A Good-looking Woman 

 Irritating Inhospitality A Present of Fruit A Eeturn Gift of 

 Sweets " Jim a Good Boy " Jim Decamps The other Boys assert 

 their Innocence Deserted by all my Attendants save one My Lecture 

 to Umganey A Lady Visitor I decline to pursue Jim . . . 170 



CHAPTER XYII. 



ABOUT THE TRANSVAAL SOME NATIVE TRIBES. 



Hints to those about to Emigrate to the Transvaal The True Source of its 

 Wealth The Crops that can best Grow there Difficulty of Obtaining 

 Labour Natives and Boers The Macalacas Shots on the Road 

 Beltong Tame Spring-bucks Mrs. Leask's Pet Tame Cranes Their 

 Odd Ways Biassed Judges My Present Driver How he does his 

 Work My Personal Interest in the Cattle Wisdom of Oxen Wilde- 

 beest The Prey of the Martini-Henry Ant-hills The Dogs on the 

 qui vive A Cobra di Capello It Escapes 184 



CHAPTER XYIII. 



AN OBJECTIONABLE HOST TRAVELLING COMPANIONS. 



Eough-and-ready Entertainment The Pests of the Stock-farmer A 

 Sheriff in Pursuit A Character Fond of Brandy and Snuff Uninviting 

 Premises A Sunday Dinner Dirty Habits My Host imperturbable 

 Bequest for more Drink A Fair Exchange A Mongrel Another 

 Useless Cur Macguire Bitten by a Snake Cured Worried by the 

 other Dogs Two Travelling Boers Description A Cross-examination , 

 Repository of Secrets A Chance of Marriage My Captain's Biscuits 

 become Inhabited Beware of Microscopical Examinations Bee-eater 

 Supposed New Species Cow and her Calf 'against Three Hyeenas The 

 Cowardly Assailants Knocked over Aard-wolf A Solomon An Offer 

 to Barter A Strange Fence My Companions Depart I Arrive at 

 Jacobsdal Commotion among the Population A Canny Scot My 

 Host and his Family I reach Zeerust Mr. Niccoti Winkle . . 194 



