A FINE SUNSET. 117 



Leaving the neighbourhood of Gubuluwayo, as 

 already mentioned, on January 26th, he reached 

 Kumalo River the following day, and on the 2,8th 

 again pushed forward towards the Shashani, where 

 he arrived after many stoppages two days later, John 

 Lee's farm being reached early on the morning of 

 the 1 st of February. For three days before his 

 arrival at John Lee's, the Journal reads as follows, 

 the first extract finding him at a point in the road still 

 a few miles from the Shashani, where his waggon had 

 sunk deep the night before, necessitating a halt : — 



" January 29^/2. — During the night some rain 

 fell ; the morning was cloudy, but fine. Got the 

 waggon clear with some difficulty, and started about 

 noon, but it stuck again after going a few yards, the 

 dissel - boom breaking, which was shortened and 

 used again, causing a long delay. ... At length we 

 started fairly about 5.40 p.m. The sun was getting 

 low, and, as we went through some really beautiful 

 scenery, he set, and the sunset scene was a lovely one. 

 I can now fancy that South Africa may have much 

 fine scenery, and I wish I could see the Zambesi. 

 In the foreground was undulating and broken 

 ground, covered with long grass, showing in some 

 places a silvery white colour, in others a yellow, and 

 in others a green one. Beyond, the deep green of 

 the trees — not uniform in height and growth, but 

 reminding one in their graceful diversity of hedge- 

 row trees or those of copses at home — rose distinct 

 against the deep violet kopjes on the horizon and the 

 sunset sky. The upper part of the sky was blue, 



