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MATABELE LAND. 



which the road for the Zambesi turns off from the 

 Ramakwebani again towards the Tati. The events 

 of their last day's advance towards this point, and 

 of the two days next succeeding, are described as 

 follows in the Journal : — 



"November i ith.- — Excessively hot day. A lion 

 had roared round the camp during the night, and 



CAMP IN THE VELDT. 



when I heard it and looked out, I found of course 

 the boys fast asleep, and the fires nearly out. When 

 aroused to the fact of a lion's near presence — for we 

 were outspanned close to the river where the road 

 comes nearly to its bank — they shouted, and one of 

 them fired a gun. Next morning the dogs evidently 

 smelt where the lion had been in the long grass, and 

 barked and sprang back, as if a lion were then there. 



