Notes on South African Hunting. 8i 
The end of the start—A refractory chief. 
very painful. I had sent Ayton on to try and 
get the chief to send two men off at once with 
duplicate notes, in case our boys should come 
to grief; but on my arrival I found the chief 
thought we were ^Mying ”—as he delicately 
expressed it—about our fatigue and hunger, 
and declined to have anything to do with us. 
At last we got a couple of bushmen to go out 
for the trifling sum of ^5, and, having started 
them off, there was nothing to do but sit 
down and wait for three weeks or so, and trust 
to luck for getting food. 
I may mention that afterwards when we got 
out to Shoshong, Khama was very angry at our 
having paid the man at all. It is a rule 
throughout his county that a white man can 
send any native anywhere he pleases. How¬ 
ever, as I said to Khama at the time, rules are 
not satisfying food; and we wanted that. I 
have since received a letter saying that the man 
had been made to disgorge the ^5, and that it 
is now waiting for me to go and fetch at Shos¬ 
hong. If it were £5,000 I should think about it. 
This place, Linokane, where we were fated to 
vegetate, is a cattle post of Khama’s, consisting 
