BULLOCKS ASSEGAIED. 105 
water, and got milk of a Kafir. He walked back 
next day to his waggon at Tchagani pool — he thinks 
about twenty miles. It was on the evening of the 
third day he reached a hill, by moonlight, whence he 
saw other hills he knew. Started before daybreak, 
and that night got the milk. He thinks he could 
have gone another day' without food or water. He 
had nothing whatever, between the coffee, at starting, 
and the milk. He carried his gun, perspired pro- 
fusely, and suffered much from cold at nights. He 
experienced a difficulty in swallowing. 
"A letter from Mandy, at Inyati, to-day, states 
that he saw a crocodile there the other day, which got 
hold of his dog, and pursued himself in his bathing 
hole. It was ten or twelve feet long, he says. 
" Dancing in little parties going on all day ; the 
girls very lively in their dance. Bought a goat for 
about three quarters of a pound of beads. 
''ymmary lotk. — Very cloudy day, inclined to 
rain. Went up to kraal, where slaughtering was 
going on. I had heard nothing of it, but the num- 
ber of bullocks slaughtered this year must have been 
next to nothing compared with former years. I 
saw a dozen or twenty down, or being assegaied. 
The bullocks are driven together, one out of the 
number being intended for slaughter. The oppor- 
tunity is watched for to hurl the assegai, which 
sometimes remains in the ox, who runs some distance 
before he falls, bleeding at the nostrils, and soon 
dies. They are stabbed in the region of the heart 
and luno^s. The first thrust is often not successful, 
