CHAPTER II. 



Sand Fountain. — A lesson to the Natives. — A present. — News of a Lion. — 

 Scheppmansdorf. — A narrow escape. — A Missionary's Establishment. 

 — Native Huts. — Missions. — A Lion Hunt. — Preparations for the 

 Boad. — Native Trees. — The Hottentots. — Character of the Country. 

 — Mode of breaking in an Ox. — Arrangement of the Baggage. — A 

 Prosperous Start. ^ — The Swakop. — Night Bivouac. — Labours of the 

 March. — Loss of a Horse and a Mule. — The Lions' chase. — Attempt 

 to avenge the loss. — A narrow escape. — Animal food.^ — The Ghou 

 Damup. — Erongo Mountain. — Intense heat. — The Tsobis River. — 

 Eide-Oxen. — Native Servants.- — Their Cape Town Life. — A Giraffe 

 hunt. — Change of Country. — An Ostrich Egg. — Approach to Otjim- 

 bingue. — Hans Larsen. 



The Missionary who had come with us from Cape 

 Town went off at once to Scheppmansdorf with 

 Mr. Bam, whose oxen fetched his waggon and aU his 

 things, and who very kindly promised to give me a help 

 with mine, when the oxen were sufficiently rested, if I 

 would first get the luggage as far as Sand Fountain. 

 The mules were therefore harnessed, and worked 

 excellently, carting my heavy things through the deep 

 sand ; and they made sometimes two and sometimes 

 three trips a-day between that place and the Bay. 

 Andersson and myself slept at Sand Fountain. John 

 Morta cooked for us, and the others drove the cart, 

 and took care of my store at the Bay. 



