86 -Notes on South African Hunting, 
Painful state—Good advice. 
It turned out that our messengers had done 
the 150 miles to Shoshong in five days^ and 
that Tr. Woods had come out through the deep 
sand in five days also, which was very hard 
travelling. 
We celebrated the arrival by having what we 
thought the most digestible thing—porridge. 
Of course we knew better than to eat much, 
but all our care was of no avail, for the next week 
or more every night we suffered the agonies of 
the damned from acute indigestion and 
flatulency. 
Two days after the cart arrived we packed it 
up, and got on the top. I had to lie out flat 
on account of my foot. I do not think I ever 
suffered such pain as I did on that journey. 
The whole of my right foot was one large 
abscess, and it was quite impossible to ease the 
pain by keeping it in any position. For five nights 
I got no sleep at all. The fact of my foot being 
exposed to the sun all day, and to the cold at 
night, not to mention my having nothing what¬ 
ever to doctor it with—not even water enough 
to wash it in—made the matter worse than it 
otherwise would have been. I did not get 
