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again about 8, having trekked about 12 miles, Dr. 

 Saur and ]\Ir. AVilliams following in their Cape 

 fart. John (our cook) has been seedy with a 

 bilious attack, and Mackay had a headache — the 

 result of a bathe, which he, Edgell, and myself 

 took in a nice clear pool which we found this 

 morning. The water was rather cold. The dust 

 on the road seems to get worse every day. It gets 

 into one's mouth, eyes, nose, and ears ; fills one's 

 kartel, and makes everything filthy. It is always 

 red sandstone, I suppose. 



Friday, June 2(jf]i. — Arrived at Lotsani River at 

 9 a.m., which we crossed and camped on the further 

 side. The road throuo'h the river was down and 

 up steep l:)anks, but we came through it well. AYe 

 have done twenty-five miles from Silika in three 

 '• skoffs," ^ which is excellent trekking. The river 

 is very low, but the water is clear. It is, ho^vever, 

 brackish and unpalatable, and is apt to produce 

 diarrhoea. The outspan place is dirty, but none 

 other is possible. The nights have been much 

 warmer the last few days, and it is no longer a 

 question of sheepskin kaross and numberles^^ 

 blankets. To-da\' we discovered a Hindoo barljcr, 

 who is making his way up country on some Kaffir 

 waggons, so "we all indulged in the luxury of a cut 

 and shave. Inspanned at -I p.m., and trekked six 

 miles, that is, about two miles bevond Elebi, ci'oss- 

 iug a small drift on the way. Elebi is a small 

 police-station, there being now Uvo men there. 



^ Skoff ; journey from outspan to outspan, or from meal to 

 meal. 



