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at last sighted him with a telescope some three miles 
off. Steele and I went after him, and found him 
as nearly as possible strangled to death with his 
halter, his head and face swollen enormously, and 
fearfully thin, having evidently gone without food 
for two days, and perishing with cold and rain. 
Yet, even when reduced to this strait, the brute 
refused to be caught, and though so weak that he 
fell twice, and staggered all the way like a drunken 
man, he went headlong into a river ; fortunately, 
however, he succeeded in making the opposite bank. 
At length I drove him into a kraal, and caught him. 
At sunset I came up with the wagons, which had 
treked on four or five miles to better grass, wood, 
and water. 
4 th .—Having seen the spoor of sea-cows, White, 
Proudfoot, and Harris went down, taking the tent 
and some food, to try and shoot one by moonlight. 
Isaac severely wounded a cow, which, however, made 
her escape to the river. I did not go, having no 
Kaffir to carry my blankets. 
After a day employed in re-soling shoes and super¬ 
intending the dyeing of shirts and trowsers, we had 
a long tramp on the 6 th after reed-bucks, with but 
moderate success. Nothing to eat at the wagons, 
except a steinbok, which did not go far amongst so 
large a party. 
1th .— Steele and I started early with four Kaffirs 
to bring home a ram I had shot. It was a very 
large one, and I had cleaned and stuffed it with 
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