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HISTORY OF 
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ciated as they were, they never could have felt the animation and 
strength to produce those rapid vibrations of tail, and to caper 
round us with such delight, as they exhibited at first setting off. 
I took with me but three attendants of this kind ; one was the 
terrier I brought from Tulbagh, who had been my faithful little 
favorite ever since, and had often served to amuse a few minutes, 
when fatigue prevented other employment. He had qualities which 
soon rendered him a favorite with my men also ; and no strange foot 
approached my waggon at night, without being announced by his 
angry barking. But his barking was destined soon to cease, and 
the journey, for which he expressed so much pleasure, was to prove 
for him a fatal one. 
The two others were large dogs, both given me by my fellow- 
traveller, Mr. Kramer : one was of the stag-hound breed ; the other, 
a large white flap-eared dog, having two or three brown spots, wiry 
hair, and a bearded muzzle. During our journey from the Cape, 
this one had taken so great a fancy to be friendly with me, that he 
followed wherever I went, and would no longer attend to the call of 
his own master, though it was from him that he received all his 
food. At Klaarwater he took up his quarters at my station, and en- 
tirely deserted his former friends ; for which reason he was at last 
very readily given up to me, and as readily accepted. 
As he afterwards became, of the canine species, the greatest 
traveller I am acquainted with, it is a tribute justly due to his me- 
mory, to record his history and exploits on these pages, for the imi- 
tation of all future dogs who may hereafter accompany any scientific 
expedition. I have been able to collect very few particulars of his 
early life, and it is known only that he was born at Tulbagh ; but 
the name which he then received has eluded all the researches of 
his biographer. From that time little occurred worth notice, until 
he arrived at the age of doghood, when, from some secret cause, he 
deserted the family in which he had been brought up, and attached 
himself to Mr. Kramer's, where, on account of his apparent want of 
confidence in his first master, the name of Wanfj^oiiw was bestowed 
upon him. 
