CHAPTER XI. 



Final start from Tati — Bushman remains — A game-drive — Wild dogs 

 — The Makalakas again — The Matengwe River — English hunters 

 met with — The Nata River — The Pandamatenga— Christmas Day 

 — Start on foot for the Zambesi — The goal at last. 



The country first passed through on leaving Tati 

 was now fresh and green, with abundance of water 

 along the road. Their first evening the party halted 

 at Mopani Pan, a small pond full of reeds and sur- 

 rounded by tall mopani-trees, a few miles from Tati. 

 This pond is a favourite halting-place for travellers 

 between the Tati and Ramakwebani Rivers, but soon 

 becomes dry in the winter season. Here the party 

 remained four days, hunting ; troops of quagga, blue 

 wildebeest, and waterbuck being met with. The 

 veldt about here, though stony and for the most part 

 very bare of vegetation, produced some fine white 

 lilies, now in bloom. 



Advancing again, on November 7th, to the 

 Ramakwebani, they proceeded slowly up that river, 

 and halted for a short time four days afterwards, 

 at the point where Frank Oates had stopped to 

 hunt when here the previous August, — the point at 



