48 MATABELE LAND. 
Baines, of Lee shooting three elephants. The horse 
here represented, which I think cost him £ioo, was 
the making of him, he tells me. Lee was a Trans- 
vaal Boer, but speaks English. He was about five 
years hunting. I had supper with him, and a long 
chat afterwards. Garland, he says, lost seven un- 
salted horses, and had to send for two salted ones. 
A good salted horse costs £ioo. Lee described 
how his old favourite used to snuff when game was 
near, and when it was elephant his manner was un- 
mistakable. He has tried donkeys in the tsetse-fly 
country, but the fly has always killed them. He says 
all horses, with scarcely an exception, must have the 
sickness, but he has known an exception. This, how- 
ever, does not apply to stock bred of salted parents, 
which often live and never have the sickness. This 
is better, as the sickness breaks a horse down. 
" Lee has just sold twelve red oxen — Africanders, 
with white faces — for ^loo, unwillingly. His other 
oxen are all in the hunting veldt. He has, however, 
let me have Smith's as far as Manyami's, with a boy 
to bring them back. I think he calls it ten miles to 
Manyami's, and from his (Lee's) house to the King's 
fifty odd miles. He says he saw some eland to-day, 
but game is not plentiful just here. However, it is 
worse along the road to the King's, as kraals abound. 
Lee does not wish to have kraals near him, and the 
king does not permit any to be made in his neigh- 
bourhood. Most of the hunters, he says, make a 
great deal of money, but spend their money as fast 
as they get it, saying, ' There is more ivory where 
