B USHMAN BONES FO UNB. 2 3 1 
which proved delicious eating when rolled in meal 
and fried in fat and oil. 
On the 13th, whilst still at the same point, 
Frank Oates's old ally, Van Roozen, arrived with 
Piet Jacobs, the Dutchman, from the direction of 
the Makalakas, the former of whom tried, it appears, 
to dissuade his late employer from attempting the 
Zambesi at the present season, a notion he was 
evidently by this time seriously entertaining. 
Both these Dutchmen, as it chanced, were ac- 
quainted with the spot near the Ramaqueban River 
where the Bushmen, whose remains Frank Oates 
had already made more than one fruitless endeavour 
to obtain, had been massacred the year before. Still 
anxious, if possible, to secure some of them, and 
finding he was now within easy access of the spot, 
he entered into an arrangement with Jacobs to con- 
duct him there ; but again, as on former occasions, 
when the time arrived for setting off, his guide was 
not forthcoming. Jacobs, however, before leaving, 
had fortunately on this occasion found a substitute 
in the person of Van Roozen, through whose guidance 
the traveller was at last successful in his search, as 
thus related in his Journal : — 
''November \^th. — Cloudy day. Old Piet left, 
having deputed Van Roozen to take me to the 
bones, but wanting to go shares in the profit. He 
left a boy with a sack ; but Van Roozen seemed so 
lukewarm, I let him send away the boy, and was 
nearly letting him go too, but Dorehill joined us, 
and at last we made a plan, persuading Van Roozen 
