THE KALAHARI DESERT. 
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soup ready. This had such a soothing effect upon me 
that I fell asleep, and did not wake again till the sun 
was well up, to find them all sitting round me with 
anxious faces. 
“ What is the matter ? ” I asked. 
“ Matter,” said Lulu ; “ you must tell us that. How 
are, you ? ” 
“ Oh ! I am all right, thanks to you all, except for a 
A VICTIM. 
feeling of weakness. Give me some more soup.” And 
then I told them all about it. “ By the bye,” I added, 
“ let the Bushmen go and fetch the feathers and skin, 
and that gun — not forgetting the skull.” 
“ They will not touch the skull or the gun either,” 
said Kert. “ They all believe that is the cause of 
your being sick.” 
So Jan was sent with them, and while he was gone 
Lulu gave me particulars of the hunt which had like to 
have ended so tragically. 
