CONTENTS. Vll 



Serolomootlooque Antelope unknown to Naturalists — A Herd of 

 Hippopotami — Fine Sport beside the River P^S^ 127 



CHAPTER XXV. 

 We cross tlie Limpopo — Rash Encounter witli a Hippopotamus — Re- 

 markable dome-like Rock — Two Serolomootlooques shot — Hollow 

 Trees containing Honey — Gigantic Ant-hills — Hunting across the 

 Limpopo — Another Boa Constrictor — A Visit from Seleka — A Sea- 

 cow shot, which sinks — ReauiTection of the Beast — Splendid Hippo- 

 potamus shooting 1 142 



CHAPTER XXVI. 

 Seleka's Town among the Rocks — Elephant hunting with Seleka and 

 his Men — Trading with Seleka — A Lion and Lioness with their Cuba 

 — An immense Herd of Hippopotami — Nine of them killed — Trap 

 for inflicting poisoned Wounds on Sea-cows — We cross the Limpopo, 

 and a Wagon sticks in the River — We trek down the Stream — Two 

 of my best Horses killed and eaten by Lions — The Chief of the Ba- 

 malette visits me — Audacity of the Lions — A Horse killed in a Fit- 

 fhll — A Chief flogged for catching and consuming a Horse 156 



CHAPTER XXVH. 

 We trek down the Limpopo — Abundance of Sea-cows-^The Lotsane 

 River — An immense Herd of Elephants — Combat with a first-rate old 

 Bull — Rheumatic Fever attacks me, which determines our Course 

 homeward — Elephants smashing Forest-trees — A Lion carries ofi" one 

 of my Men from the Fireside — The Beast occupied consuming him 

 all Night — The man-eating Lion slain — Three Hippopotami shot — 

 One of the Dogs eaten by a Crocodile — The fatal " Tsetse" Fly — The 

 Fountain of Seboono — An old Bull Elephant held in Check without 

 Gun or Dogs 170 



CHAPTER XXVni. 

 Paapaa Fountain — Watch by Moonlight from a Shooting-hole — Re- 

 markable Sport with Elephants — Four bagged and eight mortally 

 wounded in one Night — Elephant Hunting with Horse and Dogs by 

 Moonlight — A Troop of Lions — The Vultures with the shadowy 

 Wings — Another Dog snapped' up by a Crocodile — The Skeleton of 

 an Elephant shot by me discovered — The Tusks being gone, strong 

 Measures are adopted for their Recovery 189 



CHAPTER XXIX. 

 We march up the Limpopo — The Guapa Mountains — Immense Variety 

 of Game — Stalk and sho jt two Sable Antelopes — Several Hounds lost 

 — Romantic Ravine in the Guapa Mountains — My Forest Home— 



