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kopjes. There is a fine sugar-loaf-shaped kopje, 
craggy and tree-covered to the top, and very steep. 
I wish I had time to try the ascent ; there must be 
a orlorious view from it. The colours on the stones 
from lichens are most beautiful, yellow predominating. 
The Kafirs were most impudent and troublesome. 
The headman, a young fellow in European clothes, 
is a good-looking and well-behaved fellow. He sat 
on my front -box; our object is to get boys from 
him. There were five men killed by the king, at 
Lee'sj Karl says, for refusing to come to live here ; 
they said it was only fit for monkeys. Near here 
was old Makobi's kraal, where all were massacred 
for deceiving the king, after owning allegiance to 
him. A large quantity of milk was brought to us 
for sale. Heavy showers came on, but the night 
was fine, clear, and starlight. Where we passed 
Klaas an elephant had passed during the night. 
They followed his spoor, but lost it. Smith shot 
a cow-elephant near here a year or two ago, and 
they say a surly toothless bull -elephant lives about 
here now. The kopje looked very pretty at night 
when all was quiet, and its dark sugar-loaf form 
loomed up close to us against the starry sky." 
Next day (February 9th), on reaching the 
Inkwesi, Frank Gates chanced to be alone. Smith 
having gone on in advance, in company with the 
Hottentot above referred to. "After Karl had 
been to the kraal about boys," writes the traveller 
that day, "we inspanned at 10.30 a.m., and trekked 
about an hour, when we came to the drift of the 
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