CHAPTEE XI. 



CROSSING THE DRACKENBERG. 



Colenso Curious Custom of Naming Towns An Excellent Cuisine A Smart 

 v. a Handsome Man The Men who get on " The Rising Sun " Fish for 

 Dinner Are not Sardines Fish ? Night Marches Umganey is " Bass's 

 Boy " The Lad's Willingness Morris Rejoins me White Savages The 

 Great Phairshon William's Masterly Activity Chocolate-making Ready 

 for the Ascent of the Drackenherg The Shooting of Olephunts " Do you 

 Englishmans want the Transvaal ? " Native Animus against British Rule 

 Van Renan's Pass Dore's Illustrations of the Inferno The Passage Begun 

 Klipping Crawling On Narrow Escapes Very Cold The Summit is 

 Passed Hurrah ! 



COLENSO is an extremely pretty little place; its white 

 houses and wide street give it quite an aristocratic 

 appearance. What 's in a name ? Much, I should say ; 

 and the person after whom it is named I should not a 

 hit he surprised to find living there, and that to his 

 energy, attention, and industry are due its attractive 

 appearance. It is not necessary in this country to 

 reside in a town to cause it to be named after you. 

 Did Sir Harry Smith ever live at the town of Harri- 

 smith, or Lady Smith at the town of Ladysmith ? 



My new acquaintance, a very pleasant, well- 

 informed man, was going to sleep at the hotel, so I 

 resolved to do the same. Without Morris, and in the 

 vicinity of hotel accommodation, the interior of the 

 wagon would be intensely lonely and objectionable. 



I was much pleased afterwards that I formed this 

 resolution, for I found the establishment highly respect- 



