314 LEAVE AFRICA. [chap. x. 



Andersson and to Hans, for single-handed, I hardly 

 know what I should have done. 



On the 16th of January I said my last adieu, and 

 in company with Timboo, John Williams, and John 

 Morta, sailed away to St. Helena. The rest remained 

 in the countr}'. Hans intended to make a venture in 

 cattle and ivory, and Andersson to investigate the 

 natural history of the lake district. Of the natural 

 history of Damara-land he had made a complete 

 collection, but the barrenness of the country admitted 

 of no great scope to the naturalist. The flowers 

 were very few and wretched-looking. I really only 

 know one that would look presentable in an English 

 garden. What few seeds I brought from Ovampo-land 

 are now planted in the gardens at Kew. My Ovampo 

 fowls survived a stormy passage homewards, and laid 

 eggs constantly, until they came to English latitudes, 

 and then they aU died ; and my faithful cur, Dinah, 

 is the only living animal of the expedition, besides 

 myself, that fate has as yet allowed to revisit Em'ope. 



THE END. 



llRADBUKV AND liVANS, TRINTiiUS, WJHTEFEIARS. 



