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MATABELE LAND. 
let me out of her sight for a moment. She had only 
known me three months, but had formed a very 
strong attachment to me. She follows me like my 
shadow. They accuse her of stealing soap, and say 
she has a penchant for departed negroes. The fact 
is she is not overfed. I wish that I had kept her. 
I have besides two puppies. One is five, the other 
three months old, and I have had them from their 
tenderest infancy." 
The pointer referred to at the commencement of 
this paragraph was the traveller's favourite, ''Rail," 
the attached and devoted companion of all his wander- 
ings, his friend in solitude, and faithful to him even 
after death. 
" ROCK " AND " RAIL.' 
