Chap. XXX. ARKIVAL AT TETE. 627 



"masheela" to bring me to Tete. (Conimanclant'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 refreshing breakfast I ever partook of, and I 

 walked the last eight miles without the least feeling of weari- 

 ness, 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 experienced in partaking of that breakfast 

 was only equalled by the enjoyment 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 rhino- 

 ceros, to mention what may he interesting to naturalists, I add it here in 

 a note; that wherever the footprints are seen, there are also marks of the 

 animal having ploughed up the ground and hushes 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 backwards, 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. 



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