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from a noisy crowd of natives, when the messengers 

 he had sent returned from Tati with all that he 

 had asked for. After relating in his Journal the 

 incidents of this unpleasant interview, he thus con- 

 cludes the story: — 



" They left me," he says, " the noisy crew ; and 

 still, though I felt relieved, a gloom hovered over 

 my feelings, and I lay down to rest. It was then 

 with delight indeed that Matlangwani's 1 announce- 

 ment, ' inkolo ' (waggon), broke on my ears, and 

 that, rushing out, I beheld Klaas driving a waggon 

 to my scherm. True enough, Brown had managed 

 to procure an old waggon to help me out, sending 

 me also a wheel of the Scotch cart and four oxen, to 

 ensure my having sufficient. There was a long 

 letter from him, and four newspapers sent for me 

 from England, with news of letters from home 

 awaiting me at Tati." 



This was indeed a welcome release to the 

 traveller from his present troubles, and — feeling as 

 he now did that the season was too far advanced for 

 him to attempt proceeding farther — he reluctantly 

 retraced his steps to Tati, which was reached on the 

 1 8th. Here he was glad to rest for a while, finding 

 temporary quarters in the house usually occupied by 

 Piet Jacobs, the Dutchman, who was now absent in 

 the hunting-veldt. 



1 The formation and custom of the native languages appearing to 

 show that the rendering of this name — Maclinivon — in the traveller's 

 Journal and in the former edition of this book cannot have been cor- 

 rect, the above spelling has been here adopted, on the authority of Mr. 

 Mackenzie, as in all probability giving the true pronunciation faithfully. 



