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forward, and reached the first kraal of the Makalakas 
(Wankee's) on the 2 2d, where they laid in a fresh 
supply of corn, the natives this time making but a 
very feeble show of attempting to stop their progress. 
The day before this Stoffel had fallen in with a 
large pack of wild dogs, a circumstance thus narrated 
in Frank Oates's Journal : — 
^'November 21st. — Cloudy morning, after a cold 
night ; cool day. . . . Stoffel rode when we trekked, 
and shot a quagga. He describes a pack of wild 
dogs he saw. Two pallah rushed past him pursued 
by dogs, which stopped when they saw him, and 
began to bark. They were all black, spotted with 
white, with thick bushy tails, and dog-like but upright 
ears. They were the size of his dog ' Bob,' larger 
than a pointer considerably — i.e. the males ; the 
females, he says, were less. They kept running and 
then stopping at near range, but he did not get any. 
He says he has seen a pack once beyond the King's, 
and once one at Gasuma, near the Zambesi, like these. 
A pack he once saw in the Free State were of a 
different colour (reddish or gray). That he saw 
to-day contained about fifty." 
Leaving the kraal again upon the 24th, the 
Journal once more continues : — 
''November 24//^. — Hot, with a breeze. Started 
at 9.30 A.M., and trekked till noon. Passed the kraal 
just beyond, which my waggon broke before at a 
small spruit. We ride through mopani veldt, and 
soon come to another kraal. Pass lots of cultivated 
land, and then more kraals. The latter are small, 
