X INTRODUCTION. 



Whatever on those occasions I witnessed worthy of at- 

 tention, I noted in mj journal while the impression was 

 yet fresh in my memory ; from this journal the follow- 

 ing work is almost literally transcribed. Written un- 

 der such circumstances, the reader will not look for the 

 graces of style. The hand, wearied all day with grasp- 

 ing the rifle, is not the best suited for wielding the pen. 

 If I have in simple language given pleasure to the 

 sportsman, or added one page to the natural history of 

 Southern Africa, or to our knowledge of its tribes, I 

 shall think myself amply repaid for my many wander- 

 ings and watchings in a wild and savage land. 



Ahyre, June, 1850. 



