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watch' my movements, I commenced a stalk upon Bo- 

 rele, and, having got within about sixty yards of where 

 he stood in dense cover, I signed to Piet to get on the 

 other side and start him toward me ; this plan succeed- 

 ed, for he charged out of the cover, and, holding for 

 the bush behind which I was concealed, passed within 

 twelve yards. My first shot was a very deadly one. 

 It set him charging round and round in a circle, when 

 I gave him a second, and he made off mortally wound- 

 ed. I then ran to my little mare, and, mounting her, 

 gave him chase, and presently dropped him with a shot 

 behind the shoulder. Loud tl^under was rumbling to 

 windward of my canip, so I hastened to cut ofFBorele's 

 horn, after which I rode home. 



In the course of the day I saw the fresh spoor of 

 about twenty varieties of large game, and most of the 

 animals themselves, viz., elephant, black, white, and 

 long-horned rhinoceros, hippopotamus, oamelopard, buf- 

 falo, blue wildebeest, zebra, water-buck, sassayby, koo- 

 doo, pallah, springbok, serolomootlooque, wild boar, dui- 

 ker, steinbok, lion, leopard. This district of Africa con- 

 tains a larger variety of game than any other in the 

 whole of this vast tract of the globe, and perhaps more 

 than any district throughout the world ; for besides the 

 game which I have just noted, the following are not 

 uncommon, viz., keilton, or two-horned black rhinoc- 

 eros, eland, oryx, roan antelope, sable antelope, harte- 

 beest, klipspringer, and grys steinbuck : the reitbuok 

 is also to be found, but not abundantly. 



We inspanned on the 18th before it was day, and 

 trekked up the Limpopo for about three hours. In the 

 forenoon Matsaca arrived from the carcass of the bo- 

 rele : he brought with him a very fine leopard's skin ka- 

 ross, and an elephant's tocth ; these were for me, in re- 

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