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stills eats a little. Stoffel, Dorehill, and Jacob rode 

 to shoot, and Jacob shot a giraffe. I went on again 

 a short distance with the waggons, through heavy 

 mopani-veldt, finally stopping on a sandbelt 1 near 

 a pan of water. 2 Went out on foot in the evening, 

 and saw some pallah, steenbok, 3 and quagga, but 

 they were too wild for me to get a shot. 



"■November 2%th. — Cloudy morning. Heavy 

 shower came on immediately after my return from 

 an unsuccessful hunt on ' Bob.' . . . Busy buying 

 corn. The water lay deep all round my waggon. 

 The mare lying down, every now and then getting 

 up, but breathing very heavily, and when last I saw 

 her making a 'roaring' sound. Nothing was run- 

 ning from her nose, but I found inside it a little 

 bright yellow and black matter. I don't know that 

 she ate anything to-day. She lay most of the time 

 with her nose on the dirty ground ; the skin of her 

 back is all peeling off. 



November 29M. — Slightly cloudy day ; very 

 pleasant. Mare dead ; froth like white sea foam on 

 her nostrils, and inside clear yellow liquid, a lot of 

 which had run out. She was not perfectly cold when 

 I saw her. All of them say it is horse-sickness. 

 Dorehill afterwards opened her, and one of his boys 

 found a great number of large fat grubs in her 



1 An arid ridge or bank of sand, of frequent occurrence in this 

 district, extending sometimes a distance of many miles. The above 

 term has been adapted by English travellers and others from the word 

 sandbu/t, orginally applied by the Dutch to these remarkable ridges. 



2 Small pond. 



3 The Colonial Dutch name for the small antelope Nanotragus 

 tragulus, frequently misspelt steinbok. 



