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well, and I have every confidence in his judgment. 
He is a man of whom I have the very highest 
opinion, and, indeed, the more I know of him, the 
more I like and admire him. Personally, I have 
experienced the greatest kindness from him at all 
times, and know how to appreciate it. 
" Stoffel is going to take his own waggon and the 
ten oxen he bought of me, leaving the new waggon 
here. . . . Brown has just refused ^i 10 for a little 
* horse ' — of course you know * horse ' means ' pony ' 
every time I use it — which he bought for ^80. A 
good horse is worth anything to one here, and I 
cannot wonder at the price given for ' salted ' horses. 
Suppose, for instance, I had had to go to the King's 
on foot, and got foot-sore, where should I have been ? 
The question is one not easily answered ; but I sup- 
pose at any rate I should not have got on as well 
as I did. The absurdity is, that for a small insigni- 
ficant-looking pony you have to pay the same price 
as for a good English hunter. A day or two ago 
we had some races here. We could only muster 
four horses, but by varying the riders and riding 
disputed races over again, we managed to get five 
races, in all of which I rode, and got the reputation 
of being a good jockey, as out of the five I rode in 
I won four." 
Favourable as the above arrangements seemed 
for a renewed attempt to reach the Falls, the tra- 
veller's hopes, as will soon be seen, were again 
doomed to disappointment ; and this in a most un- 
looked-for manner. 
