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waggon-road so often traversed by the deceased, and 
placed by the side of a small stream or river flowing 
south. And here, in the deep repose of this silent 
spot, the traveller's remains were laid in their last 
resting-place. His was a burial which well became 
in its simplicity a true lover, like himself, of Nature 
and her wilds. 
This ended, it now devolved on Dr. Bradshaw 
to convey the waggon and effects of the deceased to 
Bamangwato, where he left them in charge of the 
Rev. John Mackenzie, himself returning soon after- 
wards to the Zambesi district. His attentions to the 
deceased during the last days of his illness must have 
materially added to the latter's comfort, whose 
friends have reason to be thankful that he chanced 
thus accidentally to have been thrown into the com- 
pany of a fellow-countryman at the close of his two 
years' wanderings. His interesting collections, more- 
over, of natural history, a part of which he now had 
with him, might readily have been dispersed, and 
his goods plundered, had his death occurred amongst 
unfriendly natives, with no one at hand to be respon- 
sible for their custody ; whilst, as it was, all these, 
with his waggon and outfit, and personal effects, were 
faithfully delivered by Dr. Bradshaw into the charge 
of Mr. Mackenzie at Bamangwato, there to await 
instructions from his relatives in England.^ 
1 Dr. Bradshaw, since the above was written, has been down from 
the interior to the Cape, with considerable collections of birds and 
insects formed during his travels. Some of the former of these have 
reached the British Museum, and are alluded to by Mr. Sharpe 
in the Appendix to this volume. 
