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pack of wild dogs, a circumstance thus narrated 

 in Frank Oates's Journal : — 



"November 21st. — Cloudy morning after a cold 

 night ; cool day. . . . Stoffel rode while we trekked, 

 and shot a quagga. He describes a pack of wild 

 dogs he saw. Two pallah rushed past him pursued 

 by dogs, which stopped when they saw him and 

 began to bark. They were all black, spotted with 

 white, with thick bushy tails and dog-like but upright 

 ears. They were the size of his dog ' Bob,' larger 

 than a pointer considerably — i.e. the males ; the 

 females, he says, were less. They kept running and 

 then stopping at near range, but he did not get any. 

 He says he has seen a pack once beyond the king's, 

 and once one at Gasuma, near the Zambesi, like these. 

 A pack he once saw in the Free State were of a 

 different colour (reddish or gray). That he saw 

 to-day contained about fifty." 



The kraal having been left on the 24th, the 

 Journal once more takes up the narrative : — 



"November 2\th. — Hot, with a breeze. Started 

 at 9.30 a.m., and trekked till noon. Passed the kraal 

 just beyond which my waggon broke before at a 

 small spruit. We ride through mopani- veldt, and 

 soon come to another kraal. Pass lots of cultivated 

 land, and then more kraals. The latter are small and 

 generally placed under a kopje, on which often grows 

 one of the few striking and picturesque trees of the 

 country. 1 We crossed two other spruits during the 

 trek, larger than the first mentioned, but not large. 



1 Probably the Euphorbia, above referred to (see pp. 46, 58). 



