VAL UE OF ' SAL TED ' HORSES. 1 9 1 



new man. Brown, I may add, thinks I have done 

 well, and I have every confidence in his judgment. 

 He is a man of whom I have the very highest 

 opinion, and indeed the more I know of him, the 

 more I like and admire him. Personally I have 

 experienced the greatest kindness from him at all 

 times, and know how to appreciate it. 



" Stoffel is going to take his own waggon and the 

 ten oxen he bought of me, leaving the new waggon 

 here. . . . Brown has just refused ;£no for a little 

 ' horse ' — of course you know ' horse ' means ' pony ' 

 every time I use it — which he bought for £%o. A 

 good horse is worth anything to one here, and I 

 cannot wonder at the price given for ' salted ' horses. 

 Suppose, for instance, I had had to go to the king's 

 on foot and got foot-sore, where should I have been ? 

 The question is one not easily answered ; but I sup- 

 pose at any rate I should not have got on as well 

 as I did. The absurdity is, that for a small insigni- 

 ficant-looking pony you have to pay the same price 

 as for a good English hunter. A day or two ago we 

 had some races here. We could only muster four 

 horses, but by varying the riders and riding disputed 

 races over again, we managed to get five races, in all 

 of which I rode, and got the reputation of being a 

 good jockey, as out of the five I rode in I won four." 

 Favourable as the above arrangements seemed 

 for a renewed attempt to reach the Falls, the tra- 

 veller's hopes, as will soon be seen, were again 

 doomed to disappointment ; and this in a most un- 

 looked-for manner. 



