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CHAPTER III. 
1854 . 
HUNTING EXPEDITION INTO THE AMATONGA COUNTRY. 
April 10 tli. — Left Natal Bay, and, having only 
just returned from a trip over the Drakensberg 
Mountains buying horses, 1 rode round by the 
Inanda to get a small outfit of shirts, &c., and found 
the sole occupants of the place one solitary young 
cock, which fled at my approach, and a wonderful 
pig, which always keeps himself in good condition, 
defends himself against all the attacks of wild 
animals, and has a strong attachment to the place, 
where he was brought a suckling. I met White by 
appointment, and was agreeably surprised at seeing 
Harris on the box of Proudfoot’s wagon. He and 
Maxwell were setting out for a couple of months’ 
shooting. Rode on to the Nonoti, where I remained 
two days, and, not knowing what to do, had a great 
washing; of clothes at the river. 
15 th. —Started off again on horseback, with three 
Kaffirs, across the Tugela, intending to stay a few 
days with Edmonstone’s party, who, I heard, were 
waiting for us at the Matakoola river, about twenty- 
