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making exercise delightful in fact, producing a 

 craving for it ; so further and further from the wag- 

 gons I wandered. At length I reached the summit 

 of the ridges of hills that bounded to the north the 

 valley in which the station of Honey Vley is situated. 

 From there I beheld a lovely stretch of country, not 

 unlike what can be seen among the Surrey hills, 

 only the emerald-like greenness of the herbage was 

 wanting. After rain such would not have been the 

 case ; still, the landscape had none of that burned up, 

 arid appearance that the hills of Spain present from 

 the seaboard at midsummer, and this attractive 

 land is situated on the margin of the great Kalihari 

 Desert. Desert is a misnomer for that country ; the 

 term is apt to mislead people, and induce the reader 

 to think that the Kalihari is exactly like the Sahara. 

 Not so ; the former is covered at intervals with trees 

 and grass, the latter is an almost illimitable ocean of 

 sand. 



From the ridge that I had gained, I detected a 

 large extent of mealy gardens and grass ; there I 

 resolved to proceed to refill my bag, as appearances 

 were very much in its favour to find quail there 

 abundant. 



Springbok and vildebeeste I found numerous, 

 but wild ; as I advanced, they kept retreating, some- 

 times gathering in dense bodies, again separating, 

 but always advancing up wind. However, the quail 

 did not appear to regard them, for on the ground 



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