22 MATABELE LAND. 



loss must have been felt by many, both travellers 

 and others, to whom he was ever ready to lend a 

 helping hand. On the present occasion, Frank 

 Oates felt strongly sensible of what he owed him for 

 his friendly aid and counsel, and some time later, 

 after the traveller's decease in 1875, it was again 

 this gentleman's good services and sympathetic 

 words that first softened the sorrow of his friends 

 at home when they received the unexpected intelli- 

 gence of his death in the interior. 



SNUFF-BOXES MADE FROM GOURDS. 



