May.] . WOLVES AND JACKALS. 
stages in a day on their returning than when 
going from home, a good criterion for judging of 
the state of their feelings. 
Munameets inquired if beads came out of the 
Great Water ? If many kept slaves ? If the 
king of England's town was as large as Kurree- 
chane ? If the person who ruled at the fair, where 
Jan Hendric and Malalla went for clothes and 
beads, was the king of England ? meaning either 
Mr. Stockingstrome or Mr. Baird (the landdrost 
and deputy landdrost). If the people of England 
wore skin cloaks ? 
' Being awake part of the night, I heard wolves 
and jackals all around, but our dogs had got so 
accustomed to them that they did not bark. We 
left the banks of the Moloppo at seven, and at 
eleven a.m. halted near the Musaree River, where 
our people wounded a rhinoceros, which was 
pursued and stabbed by the Matchappees. This 
greatly increased their stock of provisions, and 
caused a merry day. We departed again at five, 
and halted at seven p.m. 
17th. We saved two legs of the rhinoceros 
that had been killed the preceding day, to present 
to the King of Mashow and his principal chiefs. 
Maketzee complained, in the evening, that, in con- 
sequence of our doing so, he had hardly got any 
