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of clay conducting tlie air to the fire. We found the 
Caffre who had engaged to carry back two of the antelope 
heads still here, but ready to start with us on the morrow. 
August 29th, Went down to the pool in the morning to 
look up the hippopotami, but though we waited till 11 
o'clock they did not show ; perhaps alarmed by onr 
proximity had moved off in the night further down the 
river. We made a short march of three hours in the 
afternoon, passing another of our old camps, where an 
impala's and koodoo's head had been put up in a tree ; 
but the men, on going to look, found only a part of the 
impala, and from the marks upon the back concluded that 
an inquisitive panther had been after the rest ; he might 
have left them alone, as I am sure there was nothing to 
eat left on the skulls. On the road to-day, I and Dubois 
were walking alone along the river bank which happened 
to be rather high, and looking down we saw a herd of 
perhaps fifty or sixty impalas on the sand ; we commenced 
firing, and they seemed quite bewildered and let us fire 
several shots at them ; then they came up the bank about 
100 yards from us, and again stood stock still though we 
kept popping at them : there were several wounded, but 
not one dropped, and having no Caffres with us we did 
not care to follow them up, when at last they went off. 
The air already seems fresher even at this distance from 
the mountains, which are now well in sight. The Caffres 
are out of food again, and E. does not like to feel they see 
us eating when they are minus, but it can't be helped. 
August 30th, An early start. I shot an impala on the 
road, and we stopped for the men to eat it as they had had 
no food for twenty-four hours. Passed another old camp, 
and went on till 1 o'clock. E. walked the greater part of 
the way to save poor Jack." Saw a large quantity of 
game in the neighbourhood. I shot a koodoo, and Baichi, 
a hunter, got another. La Mule reported this evening 
