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occasional slight shower or a little drizzling rain. 
This absence of wet had greatly changed the aspect 
of the country, and that in a short time, for, the day 
after leaving Tati for Bamangwato and crossing the 
Shashe River, the veldt presented to the travellers 
a dry, parched appearance, very different from any- 
thing which had now for a long time been witnessed. 
The grass was yellow, and many of the trees already 
SALT PAN, BAMANGWATO. 
bare. A week's trekking brought the party to 
Bamangwato, which was reached on April nth, 
after an uneventful journey.^ 
Here Frank Oates found letters awaiting him — 
the first he had received from Enofland since leaving- 
^ The accompanying woodcut, from a drawing taken a little south 
of Shoshong (Bamangwato), represents one of the salt lakes of this 
district as seen in winter. The water in these lakes is then all dried 
up, and their beds, composed of salt and sand, present a dazzling 
white apjjcarance. 
