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proceedings, combined to hinder and delay him, again 
throwing his journey into the unhealthy season of 
the year ; but these alone would not have been of the 
same vital consequence, and the period of his mis- 
fortunes dates from the time when the Makalakas — 
the king's permission already plainly granted — first 
turned him back, as related in the succeeding 
chapter, and forced him to seek a fresh interview 
with Lobengula. In such a country, with but a 
brief healthy season, delays like this were little short 
of fatal. 
But it is time to follow him in the first of these 
ill-starred journeys. 
WATTLED STARLING. — DilopJiiis cariinculalus. 
