NELSON'S ADVENTURES. 8i 
from near the Zambesi of 70 lbs. each — the largest 
he ever saw. He has seen an elephant with four 
tusks, and a Boer he speaks of shot one with eight ; 
one of 70 lbs., the others of about 2 lbs. each. 
" When Nelson was a young boy, his father, he 
tells me, trading near Sechele's, being at feud with 
the missionary there, who had surrounded his wag- 
gon with forty Kafirs, and Incited them to seize his 
goods, he determined to blow them up ; but, in 
applying the light to the inside of the waggon, 
where was a lot of gunpowder, he was not quite 
quick enough, and was himself blown up with 
the missionary (a German) and the Kafirs. Nel- 
son himself lay many hours on the ground in- 
sensible, much scorched. He had been standing 
close to the front wheel ; his father was on the front- 
box. Nelson must have escaped thus lightly almost 
by a miracle. When he came to himself, he saw the 
wreck, his father and the Kafirs lying dead, and was 
pursued and fired at by Kafirs. The bullets passed 
close to him, and the Kafirs pursued, but could not 
catch him. He has still scars on his legs, made In 
passing through the thorns, and one on his face, 
caused by the explosion. He spent three days 
wandering in the veldt without food, but. It being 
the rainy season, he had water, and on the fourth 
day he came to a waggon. 
" There was a scene to-day when Nelson's two 
boys, who claim the ivory we got the other day, 
came to the waggon. Nelson told me not to give it 
