another route taking in some of the newly discovered 

 country in the home sweep, and the promise of the 

 morning was fulfilled. We had not been more than 

 a few minutes on the way when a fine rietbuck ram 

 jumped up within a dozen yards of Snowball's nose. 

 Old Rocky had taught me to imitate the rietbuck's 

 shrill whistle and this one fell to the first shot. He was 

 a fine big fellow, and as Snowball put on airs and 

 pretended to be nervous when it came to packing the 

 meat, I had to blindfold him, and after hoisting the 

 buck up to a horizontal branch lowered it on to his 

 back. 



Snowball was villainously slow and bad to lead. 

 He knew that whilst being led neither whip nor spur 

 could touch him, and when loaded up with meat he 

 dragged along at a miserable walk : one had to haul 

 him. Once but only once I had tried driving 

 him before me, trusting to about 400 Ib. weight of 

 koodoo meat to keep him steady ; but no sooner had 

 I stepped behind with a switch than he went off with 

 a cumbrous plunge and bucked like a frantic mule 

 until he rid himself of his load, saddle and all. The 

 fact is one person could not manage him on foot, it 

 needed one at each end of him, and he knew it : thus 

 it worked out at a compromise : he carried my load, 

 and I went his pace ! 



We were labouring along in this fashion when we 

 came on the wildebeeste again. A white man on foot 

 seems to be recognised as an enemy ; but if accom- 

 j, panied by animals, either on horseback, driving in a 

 vehicle, leading a horse, or walking among cattle, he 



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