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and the country round Durban. We manage sometimes 
to have a rubber in the evening; but it is a hard matter 
to kill time in this dead-alive place, and most trying to be 
forced to remain here. I went out in the afternoon with a 
man staying in the hotel, for a few hours' quail shooting 
on the TJmgeni flats, and bagged about twelve brace. 
There is excellent sport to be had here usually, but we 
found some other guns had been about the ground all the 
morning. In the evening we went to the glebe to meet 
Mr. Baines, a great African traveller, who kindly brought 
his sketches of African scenery and hunting adventures, 
which were excellently done, and very interesting; the 
wild animals being especially good, and very true to life. 
October Z\st, Great excitement prevailing in the town 
about a Caflre chief named Langalibalele, who refuses to 
submit to the order of the Government and give up a 
large quantity of firearms and ammunition which his 
people have acquired, and which are forbidden to natives 
to possess in Natal. He appears inclined to show fight, 
and some troops have been ordered out to make him listen 
to reason. I don't wonder at the natives resisting the 
demands of the Natal Government, as, of course, they 
don't understand how it is they are free to buy what 
firearms they please at the diamond fields in the Cape 
colony, without any hindrance or restriction, and yet 
directly they come into Natal they find themselves ordered 
to hand them over to the white men, although they are 
given to understand that the colonies are governed by the 
same Queen. When up the country near the Drachens- 
burg, which is partially the boundary of the country held 
by the whites, we saw quantities of men carrying firearms 
who had bought them at the diamond fields — to possess a 
gun being a Caflre' s greatest ambition, and for which he 
is willing to work and save. A steamer arrived in the 
