3U1 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE VI. 

 Hard Chase of an Oryx— A brindled Gnoo reduces himself to a deail 

 Lock," and is taken — Paterson slays a Gemsbok and a Bull Wilde- 

 beest—He leaves for Colesberg— Ostrich Eggs— Novel Method of 

 carrying them— Anecdotes of the Ostrich— Affray with a Porcupine 



He proves a rough Eider for my Horse — Narrow Escape from the 



Thrust of a dying Oryx — The grateful Water-root — Troops of Spring- 

 boks cover the Face of the Land — Their Migrations-— The finest shot 

 at my Leisure — Beer Vley Page 102 



CHAPTER VIL 

 Leave Beer Vley — A Bushboy captured and enlisted as a Follower — 

 Famous Sport with Wildebeest and Qaaggas from a Hunting-hole — 

 Water fails, and we march to the Great Orange Eiver — Beautiful Ap- 

 pearance of the Eiver — Stink Vonteyn, a: famous sporting Quartei>— 

 An Ostrich's Nest — Bold Mountain Eanges — ^The Griqua Tribe, their 

 Manners and Customs — An ancient Mimosa Forest — Besidence of a 

 Bushman — Successful Chase of a noble Bull Oryx 116 



CHAPTEE VIII. 

 We leave Stink Vonteyn and reach the Vaal Eiver — Wait-a-bit Thorns 

 — Chase and kill a Buck Koodoo, and bivouac on the Ground — Go- 

 bus and Jacob abscond — Eoan Antelope — We recross the Vaal Eiver 

 — Griqua Encampment — Stink Vonteyn again — A Flight of Locusts — 

 A Salt-pan — Salubrious Climate — Boers attempt to carry off Buyter 

 — A Oameel-dom Forest — A Brindled Gnoo bayed by Wild Dogs — 

 Habits of the latter ; 135 



CHAPTER IX. 

 The Ket Eiver — Nomade Boer Encampments — Surly Eeception at a 

 Boer's Farm — Lions slain by the Boers — Cowardice of the Boers in 

 Lion Hunting — Bumors of War between the Boers and Griquas— 

 The Mirage of the Plains — Habits of the Blesbok — ^A knowing old 

 Hog — A Snake under my Pillow — A Troop of Wild Dogs come upon 

 me at Night in my Shooting-hole — The Roar of Lions — Curious Facts 

 concerning them .i . 153 



CHAPTER X. 

 Boer Encampment — ^A Night in a Storm — ^A Fancy Costume — Fear^ 

 fill Encounter with a Lioness — " Colesberg" dreadfully mangled — 

 Cowardice of Hottentots — We march back to Colesberg — ^Danger of 

 being plundered by the Rebel Boers — Arrival at Colesberg— The 

 Troops »irch against the Boeis — The Battle oT Schwart Coppico— 



