672 ARRIVAL AT TETE. 



" masheela' 1 to bring me to Tete. (Commandant's house : lat. 

 16° 9' 3" S., long. 33° 28' E.) My companions thought that 

 we were captured by the armed men, and called me in alarm. 

 When I understood the errand on which they had come, and 

 had partaken of a good breakfast, though I had just before been 

 too tired to sleep, all my fatigue vanished. It was the most re- 

 freshing breakfast I ever partook of, and I walked the last eight 

 miles without the least feeling of weariness, although the path 

 was so rough that one of the officers remarked to me, " This is 

 enough to tear a man's life out of him." The pleasure experi- 

 enced in partaking of that breakfast was only equaled by the en- 

 joyment of Mr. Gabriel's bed on my arrival at Loanda. It was 

 also enhanced by the news that Sebastopol had fallen and the 

 war was finished. 



Note. — Having neglected, in referring to the footprints of the rhinoceros, to 

 mention what may be interesting to naturalists, I add it here in a note ; that 

 wherever the footprints are seen, there are also marks of the animal having plowed 

 up the ground and bushes with his horn. This has been supposed to indicate 

 that he is subject to "fits of ungovernable rage;" but, when seen, he appears 

 rather to be rejoicing in his strength. He acts as a bull sometimes does when he 

 gores the earth with his horns. The rhinoceros, in addition to this, stands on a 

 clump of bushes, bends his back down, and scrapes the ground with his feet, 

 throwing it out backward, as if to stretch and clean his toes, in the same way that 

 a dog may be seen to do on a little grass : this is certainly not rage. 



