io6 Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa. 



of a trooiDer of the detachment, Avho stripped off 

 his clothes and led onr mules through the water, 

 we effected the j^assage without loss or damage. 

 Possibly, in a fe^v years' time, there will l^e a fine 

 ii'on railway l^ridge across this river. On the 

 other side of the Limpopo, 500 yards from the 

 river, lay the camp and foi't of the Bechuanaland 



Sir Frederick CarriDgton aud officers of the Bechuanaland Border 

 Police and British South African Company's Police. 



Border Police ; to see again the British Hag, 

 to feel that at last one was well out of Boerland, 

 was truly pleasant and refreshing. These Bechu- 

 analand Border Police are as line an irregular 

 cavalry force as could be seen. Composed of men 

 of good education, and in many cases of good 

 family, their training hts thein for all kinds of 



