LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Watchers of the Desert 



The Long White Road to the Desert 



A Desert Tree .... 



The Orange River at Upington (Fig. i) 



An Orange Garden at Kakamas (Fig. 2) 



The Unknown Islands of the Orange 



Bastards Remnants of a Great Nation (Fig. 1 



Converts to Christianity (Fig. 2) 



A Lesson in Household Science . 



The Headquarters of the Cape Mounted 



Police (Fig. 1) . 

 Starting out for the Kalahari Desert (Fig. 2 

 Gert at Home 

 A Bushman Robber . 

 Bushman Grass (Fig. 1) 

 A Desert Tree (Fig. 2) 

 Crossing a Sand-Dune 

 Breakfast in the Desert 

 His Majesty's Mails . 

 The Spoor of a Puff-Adder 

 The Puff-Adder .... 

 An Outpost of Empire (Fig. 1) 

 Diamond Diggers at Rietfontein (Fig. 2) 

 Where Two Empires meet . 

 Jacob, the Desert Tracker 

 Desolation A Desert Pan. 



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