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Express ; as we ran up one recovered and went off witli 
the herd, and we went after him, passing close by the 
other lying to all appearance dead : failing to catch the 
former we returned, and, to my chagrin, I found the latter 
had disappeared. Some of the Caffres had seen him lying 
down, and were walking towards him, when up he jumped 
and started off as lively as ever ; they gave chase, but in 
vain, and we saw him no more. The last few days have 
been much hotter with the approaching spring. Poor 
Dubois ill again with a feverish attack. I managed, after 
much talking on his part, to buy a bow and arrows from 
one of the natives for four yards of salempore, a blue 
cloth that the women wear for a covering round their 
waists; but the man was most unwilling to sell them. 
Poor ^^Lion" has now gone blind with both eyes, and is 
in a most miserable plight, wasting away to a skeleton 
and refusing his food. 
August l^th. Two more Caffres turned up who were 
willing to carry, and this enabled us to take the loads off 
the other pony, so that now we are much more independent 
of the animals, and we shall be saved from the trouble of 
fixing our awkward bundle of bedding on the saddle for 
the future. Out hunting again inland, as the Caffres 
could not find any traces of the hippopotami in the Tabi. 
Another bad day, only getting three impalas which we 
wanted for food, though I saw giraffe, wild boar, and 
gnu, so we settled to return to our old camp on the other 
side of the river to-morrow, though sorry to leave the spot 
we were living on, as it commanded a beautiful view of 
the Oliphant both up and down, and on the opposite bank 
an enormous mass of rocks, rising very abruptly from the 
river, formed a fine feature in the scenery round our camp. 
August 14:th. Turned our faces homewards, and camped 
again at our old resting place where we had arrived on the 
5th. Kemp took charge of ^^Lion," and had considerable 
