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expected us to give them any of our precious and small 
store of flour or rice. 
July I4:th. Our small supply of meat gone and no food 
for the men ; and I am much afraid of their refusing to 
stop with us. I and Kemp and La Mule hunted early, but 
we got nothing, though I saw the impala for the first time, 
a beautiful antelope, reddish in colour, and about the size 
of a large fallow deer ; they are often found in large herds, 
and it is a beautiful sight to see them scamper off, bounding 
and leaping to a great height, apparently through mere 
exuberance of spirits. I never saw any buck jump like 
them. In the evening I fortunately shot a little buck 
called a duiker, which gave us a meal, and just a mouthful 
for the men. Dubois returned in the afternoon with the 
other two hunters, who were to use the large rifles (a 6 
and 8-bore) that I had bought at Capetown, and thus they 
would be available in case I wanted them myself, otherwise 
I could not have got them carried ; as it was I had to carry 
the Express myself, and Kemp the 12-bore during the 
march. Next day we all turned out again early, but with 
no success ; the fact being that so close under the Berg 
game was very scarce, and we found we made a great 
mistake in not pushing on instead of waiting for a dinner. 
Dubois came across a dead carcase of a koodoo which the 
lions had killed, and though the meat was half rotten and 
smelt horribly, the Caffres ate it readily and were thankful 
for it. In the afternoon we moved our camp about five 
miles lower down the river. One of the hunters saw a 
lion, but forbore to shoot — I wished I had had the chance. 
July 16th. Wednesday. Our wedding day. A poorish 
dinner for the occasion — not even a pudding, much less a 
bottle of champagne. One really longed for the chance of 
ten minutes in a pastrycook's shop. Hunted early and 
shot another duiker ; but what was that among so many. 
One of the men was sick, and though we made an attempt 
