CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
Departure from England — St. Helena — Cape Town — Arrival at 
Durban — Pietermaritzburg — Start up country — Pretoria; its 
climate and vegetation — The High Veldt — Dutch Boers — The 
Crocodile River — Bamangwato .... Page i 
CHAPTER n. 
The journey resumed — Halt on the Seruli — Bushmen on the Gokwe 
— The Shashe — The Tati Settlement — Adventure with a lion 
— W. E. Gates returns to the coast ; particulars of his journey 
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CHAPTER HI. 
Frank Gates proceeds to the King's Town — Crosses the Rama- 
queban — Dutch hunters on the Impakwe — The Inkwesi ; pic- 
turesque scenery — John Lee's farm — Manyami's Kraal — The 
Shashani — Fine country — Kumala River . . . 42 
CHAPTER IV. 
Arrival at Gubuleweyo — Interview with the King — Start for the 
Zambesi — Hope Fountain — Inyati — ■ Difficulty of obtaining 
bearers — The Zambesi abandoned — Hunting expedition on the 
Umvungu and Gwailo Rivers — E.xperiences of a half-caste — 
Birds' nests — The indunas' tree — Hunting — A lunar eclipse — 
Return to Gubuleweyo — Wild fruit . . . . 58 
CHAPTER V. 
Stay at Gubuleweyo — New Year's Day — The Great Dance — Cattle 
slaughtered — Departure of the King; the royal procession — A 
dispute referred to him — Lobengula's court ... 92 
