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the daughter of Captain Dunne (Hi Regan)— 
and he put me under treatment, with the result 
that I was soon better. It was eleven days after 
the accident when I consulted him, and so deep 
had been the wound that the bone was still bared. 
The mark remains to this day. 
Football boots with strips of leather across 
the sole help to keep one from slipping on 
slippery stones. Some fishermen always wear 
leggings, if only to act as a guard against snake- 
bites. There may be a heavy dew on the grass 
first thing in the morning, in which case, if long 
grass has to be encountered on the way to the 
waterside, stout boots and leggings or long field 
boots are obviously desirable. 
It is a spacious country. In the dark you 
can lose your way, with ease, and it is useful to 
have a compass. Even a farmer friend, who had 
been long in the country, after fishing the Umgeni 
until dark, was returning, as he thought, to his 
hostess’s house, when he suddenly realized that he 
was in the farmyard of an adjoining farm, and near 
the pigsty ! 
If you go fly-fishing with the sun on the 
water you will no doubt get arm exercise and 
possibly some scalies (unless you are on a length 
with no scalies), but probably no trout. These 
fish are then taking a siesta. This refers espe- 
cially to Natal, where there are not many rainbows, 
though some flourished in a little river at Tet- 
worth, near Balgowan. In East Griqualand, 
however, the rainbows—up to one pound in 
