May.] recovery OF THE LOST HORSES. 
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noceros's flesh at Mashow, told us, during the day, 
that he expected to have returned home fat and 
strong from the journey, but he saw now that he 
should return lean, and his legs quite fallen away, 
and that he should not look like a captain at all 
He did not express this in joke, but in perfect 
seriousness, for the Matchappees have no jokes 
during rain, and when living upon a scanty 
allowance. 
25th. There had been no rain during the night, 
but a thick fog in the morning rendered the tent 
and waggons as wet as though it had rained, and 
the ground remained covered with water. The 
fog prevented all attempts to look after the strayed 
horses. At ten a. m., the mist being nearly gone, 
three parties went out in different directions to 
search for them ; one of these at length returned 
with both the horses, about two p. m., having 
found them five miles to the eastward. Therm, at 
noon 58. 
We left our miry station without regret, at three 
P.M., and at four passed a small hill. From 
the rise near it, there was a very extensive view 
to the S. and S.E. of a country which appeared 
as level as a bowling-green, bounded in both di- 
rections only by the horizon. But for the rain of 
the preceding day we should have entered upon 
this plain with hesitation, lest it should have 
