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stages. Slow travelling was forced upon me, as I 

 was without mealies for the mules. Sir John 

 Willoughby left on the morning of the 26th to 

 return to Fort Salisbury, in order to superintend 

 the completion of his preparations for his expedi- 

 tion to Zumbo, on the Zambesi. " The Baboon," 

 with the three roan antelope, did not reach our 

 camp till long after noon. These fine buck lying 

 confusedly on the rough sledge, " the Baboon," the 

 naked savages, and the mules, amid the camp 

 and forest surroundings, suggested a good sub- 

 ject for a sketch. Skinning, cpiartering, and 

 cutting up the meat into strijDS for bill-tong noAv 

 occupied all hands. Order and some degree of 

 cleanliness at length restored, Lee and I rode out 

 for a hunt. We soon started and chased a herd of 

 hartebeest, one of wliicli Icll to Lee's rifle. Lee 

 had been shooting to-day and the day before witli 

 a rifle lent him by Sir John Willoughby, and re- 

 gained his usual accuracy of aim. I was unfortu- 

 nate again in wounding another, which escaped, 

 though Ave followed for some distance his tracks. 

 Xext morning the " boys " were directed to take 

 the mule-waggon Ijack to the camp we had 

 originally occupied, some nine miles from the 

 Hunyani RiAcr. Lee and I mounted our horses to 

 make a wide circuit to the same place. A long- 

 ride we had, from 6 a.m. to middav, seeing nothino; 

 in the way of game save three wild pigs, which 

 we endeavoured, without success, to stalk. On 

 reaching our camp we found that the waggons had 

 arrived without misha]), and in the al'terncon 



