260 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
where the naturalist or sportsman can not only live in comfort, 
and eat and drink with safety—the last a very questionable 
matter in some parts of the Transvaal where the Hebrew from 
Russian Poland too frequently presides—but which is, or was, 
kept by two cultivated Germans from Frankfurt, one of whom is 
a good local naturalist, and the other a charming vocalist and 
good fellow. I found neither “ mailed” nor tight fist there. 
