viii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



KARROO BEASTS, BIRDS AND REPTILES. PAGB 



Leopard drowned in well— Baboons— Egyptian sacred animals on 

 Cape farms — "Adonis" — A humiliatiag retreat — A baby 

 baboon — Clever tricks performed by baboons — Adonis as a 

 Voorlooper—K four-handed pointsman — Sarah — A baboon at 

 the Diamond Fields — Adonis's shower-bath — His love of 

 stimulants — His revengeful disposition — Pelops the dog-headed 

 — Horus — Aasvogeh — Go.\t-sucker — The butcher-bird's larder 

 — Nest of the golden oriole— The kapok-bird — Snakes in 

 houses — A puff-adder under a pillow — Puff-adder most dan- 

 gerous of Cape snakes— Cobras — Schaapsikier—\5^y house- 

 lizards — Dassie-adder — The dassie the coney of Scripture — 

 Stung by a scorpion — Fight between tarantula and centipede 

 — Destructive ants — The Aardvaark, or ant-bear — Ignominious 

 flight of a sentry — Ant-lion — Walking-leaves — The Hottentot 

 god — A mantis at a picnic 237 



CHAPTER XIII. 



OUR NEIGHBOURS. 

 Hospitality of Cape colonists — Cheating and jealousy in business 

 — Comfortless homes — Spoilt children — Education — The 

 " Schoolmaster " — Convent schools — A priest-ridden nation — 

 The Nachimaal — Old French names — A South African duke 

 in Paris — Fine-looking men — Fat women — Ignorance of 

 Yrouws — Boers unfriendly to English — A mean man ... ... 266 



CHAPTER XIV. 



GOOD-BYE. 

 Recalled to England — Regrets and farewells — Cape horses lacking 

 in intelligence — "Old Martin" — A chapter of accidents — A 

 horse ''after Velasquez" — The Spy's revenge — Virtues and 

 faults of Cape horses — Horse-sickness— Good-bye to Swaylands 

 —Kaffir crane — The voyage home — Dogs in durance — St. 

 Helena— A visit to Longwood — Home again 277 



