CHAPTER IX. 



Fresh start for the Zambesi — The Ramakwebani again — A lion shot — 

 Singular building — Wild fruit — First kraal of the Makalakas — 

 Stopped by the induna — Return to Tati — To Gubuluwayo and 

 back — Fresh leave obtained — Altered arrangements for the 

 journey. 



On first leaving Tati, on June 9th, the old ground, 

 as though he had been making for Gubuluwayo, was 

 retraced as far as the Ramakwebani River, where, on 

 June 10th, the traveller halted a short time to hunt. 

 Giraffe, quagga, and blue wildebeest were now abun- 

 dant in this district, and ostriches were also met 

 with. Van Rooyen too, the day before they left, 

 succeeded in shooting a lion which had threatened 

 to attack his horse. An account of this adventure, 

 along with some other matter, is given in the 

 traveller's Journal of this date, as follows : — 



" June \2tJ1. — Mild, cloudy day after a very mild 

 night. . . . Just before sundown Van Rooyen re- 

 turned from hunting, having shot a lion. It seems 

 he had been following a sable antelope bull, and was 

 about two or three miles from the waggon, down the 

 Ramakwebani, when a lion approached his horse quite 



