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them poor specimens and declined to deal. Started off 
early tlie next morning, and had to trek for many hours 
before reaching any grass. We had our Michaelmas goose 
for dinner with the apple sauce, but no stuffing. I felt 
rather seedy which is an unusual sensation, though we 
have now been five months out of reach of doctors. "We 
are already beginning to calculate upon the boat we may 
be able to catch at Capetown, and hope to be in time for 
the mail leaving November 5th. 
September SOth. Eeached Harrison's farm, where we 
had met with much civility before, and where we had left 
a lame ox ; on enquiring for him we found he had died, 
only a few days before our arrival, like many of the cattle 
in these parts, from the cold and scarcity of food, so 
another £10 note gone ; but I am getting used to it now. 
Pushed on, and in the evening crossed the boundary 
stream of the Transvaal, and slept again in Natal. The 
girl Sara was now safe ; but I sometimes should have been 
glad if her former master had come to claim her while we 
were still in the Transvaal, as we were obliged to let her 
sleep in the front part of our wagon, and she was anything 
but a sweet neighbour. A heavy thunderstorm came down 
this evening as soon as we had camped, and then turned 
into a dense mist, which seemed to penetrate into every- 
thing, even our bedding. 
Octoher 1st, Were roused up once or twice in the night 
by a drop of water on our faces, and had to stop the leak 
by stuffing in pocket handkerchiefs ; we also could hardly 
sleep for the wind that howled and blew a strong gale, on 
and off, all night. This must be a lively place to live in, 
as we were nearly blown away from here on the road up. 
Next morning we trekked on, but with difficulty, as the 
roads were very muddy and soft from the rains, and going 
down hill the break wouldn't act, and the wagon kept 
sliding about bodily in rather an uncomfortable and 
