Notes on South African Hunting. 
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Our start North. 
led. Remonstrance with a thick stick overcame 
his objections^ and we rode on through the 
nightj and got to water about mid-day next 
day-—distance about forty-five miles. We rested 
all the afternoon, and thus fortified ourselves 
to take watch and watch about through the 
night. This we thought necessary, as lions 
are very numerous all along the road, and it 
was a matter of the utmost importance to us 
not to lose our horses. We did our watches 
with the greatest piety that night ; but next 
morning we decided the horses in future should 
take care of themselves. At this water we hung 
up the meal we had, in a tree, as a reserve for 
our return journey, and started on again. 
Before we left the wagons I had obtained from 
Mr. Fry, a trader who knew the road \vell, the 
names of, and distances between, the various 
waters to be found on the road. The distance 
between two points is measured in South Africa 
by the time an ox wagon takes to go from the 
one point to the other. Now as ox wagons go 
different rates over different roads, as one span 
of oxen will differ in pace from another, and as 
poor humanity is liable to error when judging 
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