CHAPTER XXVII. 



I LEAVE SOSHONG. 



The Cattle at Soshong Lake Bullock Galloway-like Ox Kaffir Ox Mashoona 

 Ox How many of the Cattle lose their Tails Kama's Horses Queer 

 Sheep How they Fight Five Strange Children My Mare Ruby Fowl 

 My Goat becomes Food for a Hyaena My Monkey returns to his Mates 

 My Mashoona and Macalaca People leave me A Word for the Macalacas 

 My Departure from Soshong Dilly-dallying of the Blacks Kama's Cattle 

 Kraals Mapaney Tree Bad Luck Stuck in a River-bed One of my Dogs 

 Bolts Birds charmed by a Snake End of the Enchantment Seruley Vley 

 I fall in with a German We dine together His Bullock's Stampede 

 The German loses a Saulted Horse A Best A Glimpse at a Leopard 

 Greet and I part. 



A FAVOURITE habit of mine, as I have said before, is 

 to take my place in front of the mission -house and 

 watch the traffic up and down the road. There are 

 other objects here deserving of observation besides 

 the natives. 



First, then, I will mention the cattle. They are 

 a queer mixed lot ; no herd in Europe would be found 

 to contain such a variety ; they are of all colours, sizes, 

 and shapes. On account of its size we will take the 

 Lake bullock, an immense, ungainly, raw-boned creature; 

 its bones are so prominent that it never appears fat. 

 The head is coarse, and the dewlap very large ; but the 

 most remarkable point about it is the horns, which are 

 enormous, beyond all conception in length, and stand 

 out almost at right angles from the head. A pair I 

 procured measured from tip to tip no less than nine 

 feet two inches ; and I have been assured that larger 



