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MATABELE LAND. 
which the road for the Zambesi turns off from the 
Ramaqueban again towards the Tati. Here the 
latter had now a hut of branches made by the boys 
for himself to lie in, as the heat in the waggon was 
insufferable. This was some relief from the usual 
state of things experienced about this time. " The 
flies," he writes one day at this encampment, " are 
CAMP IN THE VELDT. 
perfectly maddening. One wakes early, when it is 
comparatively cool, looking forward without much 
pleasure to the coming day of heat and discomfort — 
no comfortable spot to retire to from the heat, and 
every place dirty and crowded. How different," he 
concludes, "from the luxuries experienced in some 
hot countries!" Here, on one occasion, his boys 
brought him some fine barbel, taken in the river, 
