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but sent forward to the Commandant the letters of recom- 

 mendation with which I had been favoured in Angola 

 by the Bishop and others, and lay down to rest. Our 

 food having been exhausted, my men had been subsisting 

 for some time on roots and honey. About two o'clock 

 in the morning of the 3rd we were aroused by two officers 

 and a company of soldiers, who had been sent with the 

 materials for a civilized breakfast and a " masheela " 

 to bring me to Tete. (Commandant's house : lat. 16 

 9' 3* S., long. 33 28' B.) 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 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 experienced 

 in partaking of that breakfast was only equalled by the 

 enjoyment of Mr. Gabriel's bed on my arrival at Iyoanda. 

 It was also enhanced by the news that Sebastopol 

 had fallen, and the war was finished. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



I WAS most kindly received by the Commandant Tito 

 Augusto d'Araujo Sicard, who did everything in his power 

 to restore me from my emaciated condition ; and as this 

 was still the unhealthy period at Kilimane, he advised 



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 ploughed 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 

 Tejoicing 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. 



