PREFACE. 



The excursions to which the following pages refer 

 were undertaken at different intervals by the Author, 

 principally for amusement and information, during 

 a residence of ten years at the Cape. 



In the course of his " Wanderings/' he tra- 

 versed a considerable portion of the interior of 

 Southern Africa, and succeeded in obtaining an 

 extensive collection of its productions in Natural 

 History, among which were several new and unde- 

 scribed animals ; — the incidents and adventures that 

 occurred were preserved in a journal not originally 

 intended for any purpose beyond that of private 

 reference, and the amusement of a few friends, to 

 whom a relation of the events connected with these 

 journeys might be matter of interest. 



On the Author's return to England, however, 



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