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to see. The roan antelope is rather smaller than 

 the koodoo, about as big as a hne Scotch stag, and 

 quite as graceful in appearance. The main body 

 of our waggons was only encamped about three 

 miles off. The "Baboon " is at once sent off to 

 fetch donkeys to carry the meat, while Lee and I 

 remain to o-rallock the bucks and cover them over 

 with grass and branches to hide them from the 

 vultures. AVe then rode on to Major Giles" camp, 

 where I luckily found my friends at breakfast. 

 Here I was informed that the eight oxen were not 

 strono; enouo'h to drao- the mule wao-o-on, so it was 

 decided that the mule wao-o-on was to remain be- 



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hind with me, and the light Scotch cart was to be 

 given back to the span of oxen. This arrangement 

 was a pleasant one for me, for ])y it I obtained the 

 companionship of Captain Williams, who occupied 

 the mule wao-o-on. I remained with mv friends for 

 some hours, and witnessed for the hrst time a 

 regular native market. A small group of Maka- 

 laka had a kraal on the Umjinge River, close to 

 our camp, and brought pumpkins, milk, mealies, 

 and beans, for which they took in exchange pieces 

 of coarse blue calico (''limbo"). Trade proceeded 

 merrily, with much laughter and joking. Mr. 

 Mackay and ]\Ir. Coventry conducted the barter, 

 Ijut I am fifraid that their weights and measures 

 would not always have sustained the examination 

 of an English police inspector. I found that one 

 yard of " limbo " would purchase about a shilling's- 

 worth of stuff. Altogether some twehe yards 

 were expended. These natives were bv no means 



