B USHMAN B ONES FO UND. 2 3 3 



large trees, laden with yellow blossoms, growing in 

 rich masses like laburnums, but in spikes, scented the 

 air. Behind these rose a pretty rugged kopje, and 

 in front of them were the old huts of the unfortunate 

 Bushmen, and the screens from the sun which they 

 erect. Heaps of ashes and game -bones, broken 

 pots, and other remains lay around, amongst which 

 the skulls of the Bushmen appeared conspicuously. 

 We found three here, and three more lay in the grass 

 at some little distance. We offsaddled and collected 

 some bones, which I tied up, in order to carry on 

 my saddle in front of me, and we again set off, but 

 the sky was clouded over and we were not sure of 

 our road. However, we came out all right in the 

 waggon -road. Van Rooyen deposited his charge, 

 and we rode forward to the waggons. Van Rooyen 

 shot a quagga just before we crossed the big spruit, 

 and we soon arrived at the big branch of the Tati, 

 where the waggons were outspanned, Van Rooyen 

 having decided to pass the night there with us." * 



The following morning early, Van Rooyen took 

 his departure, trekking south, whilst the rest of the 

 party crossed over to the Tati, where, outspanning 

 at the "poort" (the pretty spot already noticed in the 

 preceding chapter), they again stopped for two or 

 three days to hunt, at which point the Journal thus 

 continues : — 



1 The skulls and other remains here obtained were brought to 

 England, with the rest of the traveller's collections, after his decease, 

 and form the subject of the interesting paper kindly contributed to the 

 Appendix to this volume by the late Professor Rolleston, for whom 

 they were collected. 



