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two Kaffirs back again to the Black Umveloose, where 
we left the wagon and some surplus stores, and I 
have no doubt in my own mind saved his life by so 
doing. 
9 th .—Edmonstone arrived with a message from 
White, saying he wms not coming, and we must start 
the Kaffirs off at once with all the sea-cows, ivory, lard, 
bacon, &c., and all the spoils of the chase, amounting 
to fifty-five sea-cows, and only one elephant. Started the 
Kaffirs off on the 11th, heavily laden, a long string of 
them, and we pulled the boat round again to the mouth. 
12 th .—Broke up our camp, as usual, with a huge 
bonfire, and started on foot with thirty Kaffirs carry¬ 
ing ; paid them on arrival with brass wire and 
blue salempore, or calico. I did not arrive till 
the 15th, dead knocked up, the journey quite 
overpowering me in my weak state. Inyati, my 
Kaffir, stalked ahead, carrying everything but my 
gun, which I was forced to lug along myself; 
and many a time during the march, being quite 
exhausted, I was obliged to knock under, and lay 
down under a shady tree till I had recovered. 
After calling and shouting in vain for me to 
come on, he would leave me, and apparently go 
on his journey. He could not have been carrying less 
than eighty pounds weight of one thing and another, 
principally a huge calabash of fat, with which they 
smear their bodies all over, and value it immensely, 
and therefore could not possibly render me any assist¬ 
ance ; but his going away was only a make-believe, to 
