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all the couditions arc better, that the hind is good 

 and the cUmate fairly healthy, and I trust that this 

 report may turn out to ]3e true, for having now 

 travelled upwards of two hundred miles througli 

 Mashonaland, I have, as yet, seen no place suitable 

 for prosperous European settlements. To one 

 person only would this country be attractive, to 

 the sportsman or the hunter. According to nati\'e 

 reports, on which reliance can be placed, game 

 abounds. Antelope of all kinds are numerous, 

 sable, wildebeest, hartebeest, eland, ostriches, all 

 can be found and chased, though good galloping 

 horses will be necessary for success, Avhile the 

 presence of many lions offers an exciting variation 

 to the l)old and steady shot. I saw from the road 

 and examined through a telescope, two fine herds 

 of hartebeest, but could not chase them, as all the 

 strength of the horses was necessary for the trek. 

 No incident of any kind marked the hours of our 

 travel. We passed many ox waggons brought to 

 a stop owing to the bad road and the bad grass. 

 Two white men. Englishmen, making the journey 

 on foot excited our envy and admiration. All the 

 time they kept up with us, passing with ease in 

 the daytime our struggling horses and mules. A 

 couple of blankets and a small bundle of trading 

 goods to barter for grain with the natives were 

 all their possessions, a bush or rock on the 

 veldt their only sleeping accommodation, l)ut a 

 cheerful heart and a Hght step bore them gaily 

 on to an unknown goal and unguessed fortunes. 

 We lost two mules on two successive days from 



