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Infantry v Cavalry travelling. 
knife is also a nuisance, but one sometimes gets 
a little excitement out of that by cutting a 
snake. 
Moreover, our return journey promised to 
be harder than the journey up, for between the 
Nata river and the Shoshong there is a stretch 
of sand, without water, nearly one hundred 
miles in length. Fortunately, just before we 
started, four natives came up and said they 
wanted to go out to Shoshong, so I engaged 
them at once, and gave them as many empty cala¬ 
bashes as they would carry, with the idea of 
sending them on with water for the horses 
when we came to the above-mentioned thirst. 
It might be thought that a man on foot could 
not keep up with a horse, but this is not the 
case, especially in the sand, as horses have to 
be rested at least one da}^ in the week. 
On the afternoon of July 7, with rested horses 
and appeased appetites, we left Pondamatenga, 
accompanied by a boy of Mr. Blockley’s. On 
the way to the first water we passed close to 
some ostriches. We pointed them out to the 
boy, and he said that when he came back—he 
was only coming a short way with us—he would 
