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here two English tourists, one of them called Bond, 
have just left here, trekking slowly to the Falls. 
This year and last the Falls have been in great 
request apparently, as Garland and Dawnay visited 
them last year, and now the Gardens, Bond, and 
myself, are all bound there, this. Selous too is very 
anxious to see them, and will probably manage it. 
We are still in lots of time, in fact the great fear 
now is of going there too soon, but I shall go slowly, 
and remain where it is healthy till it is the same 
at the Zambesi. 
" The boys, as one's Kafir satellites are called, 
whatever their age, are far more liable to fever of 
course than their ' bosses.' Lying out naked, or 
with only a skin or blanket and a fire, to keep the 
cold away at the unhealthy season, is not likely to 
prevent an attack of fever. Three or four of my 
boys have had it. I have given them quinine, and 
there is only one of them ill now. This is a little 
fellow I call ' Quilp.' He is perhaps eighteen, and 
a perfect dwarf. The race he belongs to, the Bush- 
men of this country, are usually tall. These Bush- 
men are a curious race, who probably had their 
homes in the veldt long before the Mungwato and 
Matabele people came here and conquered it, and 
before the races they conquered came. The Mung- 
wato people are an utterly different nation from the 
Matabele. The latter have two other nations, the 
Makalaka and Mashona, living in bondage under 
them, who are far more ingenious and versed in the 
arts than their conquerors, having mined and worked 
