Notes on South African Huntings 51 
The Great River, 
ofj nor flamingoes. The river is also in most 
places thick with crocodiles^ which are a source 
of much danger to the natives. It is a curious 
fact that almost all carnivorous animals will 
attack a black man before a white—at least, 
that is what I have been brought up to believe, 
though I am not such a bigot as to wish to 
force others to do likewise. 
On the north side of the river game is very 
abundant, and facilities will, I believe, be 
shortly offered by Messrs. Westbeach and 
Watson, for hunting there. 
The question which absorbed our attention 
during our day’s sta}^ with Mr. Watson was 
how to get down to the Falls. The south side 
the boys said, was too full of lions,” and 
they could not be induced to go that way ; the 
north side we were advised not to go, as near 
the Falls there dwells a chief who was described 
to us as being a very ogre to those who wished 
to cross. However, after the usual hours of 
talk our boys could not be induced to go the 
south side, so we had to decide to go on the 
north, and trust to the heart of the chief being 
softened by our youth and beauty. 
