April.] 
MERIBOHWHEY. 
about a hundred yards in front of the waggons, 
one of our people, from behind a bush, fired 
off a musket containing an iron bullet, which 
instantly broke his neck bone, and laid him dead 
on the ground. In a moment all were assisting 
to skin and cut him up. Our people having cut 
off the two hind legs, gave the skin and the rest 
of the carcase to the Matchappees who were pur- 
suing the animal, and by whose means he had 
come in our way. On hearing this, they began 
seriously to dispute what proportion each should 
receive ; and so earnest were they in this dis- 
pute, that not one of them seemed to observe the 
departure of either us or our waggons. 
We passed two great nests on a tree similar to 
that which I have mentioned in my former 
journal.* My Hottentot driver, not having seen 
such nests before, jumped from the waggon to 
examine them. He soon returned, and said that 
one of them had eighteen holes by which the birds 
entered. 
Pelangye, a Matchappee captain from Old 
Lattakoo, with his wife and little daughter, tra- 
velled in our company to the Masliow country. 
His wife, to protect herself from the sun, made 
use of an umbrella, so well constructed of dark 
* Travels in South Africa, p. 405. 
