CHAPTER XI. 
Final start from Tati — Bushman remains — A game-drive — Wild dogs 
— The Makalakas again — The Matengwe River — English hunters 
met with — The Nata River — The Pantamatenka — Christmas Day 
— Start on foot for the Zambesi — The goal at last. 
The country first passed through on leaving Tati 
was now fresh and green, with abundance of water 
along the road. Their first evening the party halted 
at " Mopani Pan," a small pond full of reeds and sur- 
rounded by tall mopani trees, a few miles from Tati. 
This pond is a favourite halting-place for travellers 
between the Tati and Ramaqueban Rivers, but soon 
becomes dry in the winter season. Here the party 
remained four days, hunting ; troops of quagga, blue 
wildebeest, and waterbuck being met with. The 
veldt about here, though stony and for the most part 
very bare of vegetation, produced some fine white 
lilies, now in bloom. 
Advancing again, on November 7th, to the Rama- 
queban, they proceeded slowly up that river, and 
halted again for a short time four days afterwards, 
at the point where Frank Oates had stopped to hunt 
when here the previous August, — the point at 
