AFRICAN HUNTING 
FROM NATAL TO THE ZAMBESI. 
CHAPTER I. 
1852. 
EARLY LIFE-LAND IN NATAL-FIRST HUNTING EXPEDITION 
TO ST. LUCIA BAY. 
When the following pages taken from my journals 
were written, sometimes in ink, but often in pencil, 
gunpowder, tea, &c.,in Kaffir kraals or wagon bottoms, 
and chiefly for a brother’s eye, I little thought that 
they would ever come before the public ; and it is 
only now, at the earnest solicitations of my friends— 
and almost promises made to many I left behind me 
in Natal, who noticed the once short trips grow 
longer and longer, till, in my last, 2,000 miles of an 
almost unexplored country had been traversed and 
the Zambesi reached — that I am now induced, with 
some diffidence, to publish them. 
Conscious that in going ten years back I am neces¬ 
sarily travelling over ground already pre-occupied 
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