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the day's march. Though often extremely tiresome and 
aggravating, the Caffres are not, after all, much worse 
than their neighbours, and one cannot help being often 
amused at many quaint little traits in their character. 
They always give any European with whom they may be 
thrown a name of their own concoction, usually signifying 
some physical or mental peculiarity which they fancy they 
have detected in the individual. E. is called Quasi Quasi, 
i.e, always on the look out;" Dubois is Mathala, or 
ever ready to stop;'' I rejoice in Mat-tat-tan, meaning 
always on the go;" Kemp is Methlu-endod manly 
eyes ; " and Woodroffe's name is Chinga, or thick neck." 
As we cannot find out that there is any quantity of big 
game to be found within a few days' walk lower down the 
river, this will probably be our farthest point, as it will be 
better to spend all the spare time we have in hunting in 
this neighbourhood where we have found game, than in 
travelling on in search of fresh hunting grounds. 
August 1 1 th, 1 was out hunting all day with no success, 
getting only one shot at a gnu. I saw a troop of giraffe, 
but could not get near them. La Mule was more fortunate 
as, coming home, he separated from the rest, and met with 
a solitary bull buffalo which he bowled over. Finding 
there are wolves about the camp attracted by the smell of 
the hippopotamus meat, we put out a piece poisoned with 
strychnine, but though it was taken away we didn 't succeed 
in finding the wolf ; it is the only way to get these animals 
as they are very rarely seen in the daytime. The next 
morning, after sending a Caffre to reconnoitre on the Tabi 
river, where hippopotami were said to have been seen, I 
again went out with the hunters. I managed at last to 
kill a gnu, and sent his head back to camp, the meat not 
being worth eating. On my way home, after a most 
patient stalk, I crept within range of another herd of 
these animals, and bowled over a right and left with the 
