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Duke walked about highly elated, and evidently 

 pleased that his trophies attracted so much notice. 

 About one o'clock he started to go on board the 

 Petrel, a great many accompanying him to the jetty. 

 Here he took a warm farewell of those with whom 

 he had become personally acquainted. As he shook 

 hands with the Messrs. Bex, Duthies, and G. E. 

 Atkinson, he thanked them in the kindest manner 

 for having exerted themselves so much to render 

 his hunt successful. He then got into the boat and 

 was pulled off to the Petrel, which in about an hour 

 afterwards steamed out to sea, amid the mingled 

 cheers and regrets of all the inhabitants of the 

 Knysna. 



Before leaving the village the Duke gave a liberal 

 gratuity to each of the scouts, and after his arrival 

 in Cape Town he forwarded presents to those who 

 had been his personal escort. To one of them, who 

 acted, as captain of the hunt, he sent a handsome 

 gold watch, and the others received valuable rings, 

 which they will always highly prize on account of 

 the donor. 



