RAINBOWS OF EAST GRIQUALAND 271 
Division of Cape Province). In the 1911 season, 
when the Mooi river, East Griqualand, was first 
opened, Mr. Manley landed, on the fly, over two 
hundred rainbow trout, each over 2 lbs, We 
had no luck at all on our one visit to the Mooi, 
and were sorry chiefly because of the disappoint- 
ment to the sergeant-major (a Surrey man) of the 
district police force, who had himself taken much 
trouble in the hope of ensuring sport for us, and 
who was a true brother to all anglers. On this 
river in April, 1914, the late Major the Hon, C. 
B. Mitford, who fell gloriously in France, Captain 
Houston, and Sir Basil Brooke had wonderful 
sport. They also fished the Wildebeeste. Their 
total bag on a short holiday was one hundred 
trout weighing one hundred and fifty-five pounds, 
They put back all trout under one pound. 
From Maclear it was our fortune to proceed 
by Cape cart to new headquarters, a farmhouse in 
the direction of the Drakensberg. Our baskets now 
began to assume some importance. A couple of 
hundred yards from the homestead was a stream, 
the little Pot, and it was full of iridescent rainbows. 
They were real Afrikanders, loving the sun. 
Morning, noon, evening, they rose to the wet fly, 
any fly. My friend from Aberdeen was justified 
in his hopefulness, It was proving better further 
on. These rainbows, averaging about half a 
pound, fought so furiously, that a man of Devon 
might have thought himself back on Dartmoor or 
Exmoor. A son of Usk might have remembered 
Brecon. Once I saw a good rise over what 
