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MATABELE LAND. 



Fresh elephant-spoor was seen north of Tamasetsi, 

 but the time now allowed of no delays for hunting. 

 The "poison-plant," growing low, and bearing a 



AFRICAN DWARF GOOSE. — Nettapus atiritus. 

 (Length about II inches.) 



yellow fruit like a magnum bonum plum, 1 was 

 gathered on one occasion near the waggon-track. 



The Daka River was reached upon the 21st, and 

 the day after, some miles farther on, two other small 

 streams were reached and crossed, and then a third into 

 which apparently the first two flowed. This last was 

 a small river called the Pandamatenga, 2 just beyond 

 which is the place where waggons stand for travellers 



1 Perhaps a species of Solatium. 



2 The above spelling gives the Makalaka form of this word ; 

 Pantamakika is the Bechuana form. 



