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so that I think they would not stand any great 

 length of time. They are cut in an oblong form 

 and properly placed for building. Karl says it was 

 made for smelting copper, and used by the people 

 whom Mosilikatze found here. That it is any older 

 I should much doubt. Shot here," he concludes, "a 



yellow-billed hornbill. — Toe at s flavirostris. 



beautiful sun-bird, whose beauty awoke my slumber- 

 ing love of ornithology." Birds had been scarce of 

 late, but became much more plentiful at the Ramakwe- 

 bani, which was reached the following morning. At 

 this river the party again halted a few days to hunt 

 before finally separating. The game in the district, 

 however, for the most part proved scarce and wild, 



