Contents. xi 



CHAPTEK XIV. 



SPORT IN MASHONALAND. 



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Sport in South Africa — Hints to inexperienced sportsmen 

 — Approximate cost of equipment for a six months' 

 hunting expedition — Sir John Willoughby arrives 

 at our camp on the Hunyani River — Huntino; the 

 Hartehecst — How to cook venison — A Slough of 

 Despond — Farther hunting adventures after antelopes 

 — A native hunting party — A cohra in the camp- — 

 ]\rethod of scaring vultures off dead game — Accident 

 to Major Giles — Scarcity of grain and food in Ma- 

 shonaland — Return to Fort Salisbury . . .212 



CHAPTER XV. 



THE GOLD DISTRICT OF TIIK ilAZOE RIVER. 



In quest of gold — Exploration syndicates — Mashonaland 

 as a held for emigration— The Mazoe gold-fields — 

 Captain Williams's report — Old workings — The 

 " Golden Quarry " mine — Other mines visited in the 

 district — More disappointments .... -34' 



CHAPTER XVI. 



HUNTING THE ANTELOPE ON THE HIGH VELDT. 



■\Ve start for Hartley Hill — The Mashonas as servants — 

 Marriage in Mashonaland — All alone on the Veldt — 

 Hints to hunters when lost on the Veldt — A Kaffir 

 kraal — Barter with the natives— Dangerously bad 

 shooting — The troubles of trekking — The country 

 between Fort SalisVjury and Hartley Hill — Wild 

 flowers and fruit — Unsuccessful chase after ostriches 

 —A fine herd of eland— The bull of the herd falls to 

 my gun ......... 246 



CHAPTER XVII. 



WEALTH OF MASHONALAND — DOUBT AND DISAPPOINTMENT. 



Hartley Hill — Our party again united — The Tsetse-fly pest 

 — Mr. Perkins joins me in a day's shooting — Surgeon 

 Rayner's adventure with a lion — Contemplating the 

 return journey — Making a clean breast of it — Dccep- 



