120 Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa. 



through Avhom I hoped to obtain some good big- 

 game shooting. The remainder of the joer- 

 sonnel was as follows :— 3 white servants, 2 

 " Cave boys," 4 grooms, two cooks, with 2 

 native boys to assist, 2 donkey herds, 1 4 nati\-e 

 drivers and leaders. The live stock consisted of 

 103 oxen, one slaughter cow, 13 riding horses, 18 

 mules, 1 mare to run with the mules, 14 donkeys, 

 11 dogs, mostly curs. The vehicles Avere 1 

 " spider " carriage, 1 large mule waggon on springs 

 draAvn by 12 mules, 4 half-tent waggons, drawn by 

 18 oxen each, 1 buck or uncovered waggon, also 

 drawn by 18 oxen, the Scotch cart, a covered 

 waggon on two wheels, drawn by 8 oxen. This 

 quantity of wheeled vehicles and cattle and mules 

 had to draw about 21,000 lbs. of meal, mealies, 

 potatoes, onions, and various other provisions, 

 2000 lbs. of ammunition, 1500 lbs. of trading- 

 goods, 2500 lbs. of mining tools and plant, 8000 lbs. 

 of baggage, 5000 lbs. of camp equipment, furniture, 

 and miscellaneous articles, 3000 lbs. of corn and 

 forage for horses, and about 1500 lbs. of saddlery 

 and stable equipment, making a total, with allow- 

 ances for other necessary weights, of upwards of 

 40,000 lbs., or, according to local measurement, 

 some twenty tons weight of freight. The enumer- 

 ation of the above will be sufficient to indicate the 

 amount of thought, care, and trouble requisite for 

 the conveyance of such a troop and such a quantity 

 of stores across such a country as South Africa, 

 with its hopeless roads, its swamps, its rockv 

 places, fevers, and sicknesses, without incurring 



