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so we cleaned and plucked, and made all as light as 
possible, and the Kaffirs carried off everything, not 
excepting the huge crested bustard. In the course of 
the day we crossed the Umsindoosie, and, after some 
hard walking, reached the Umveloose at sunset. 
The next morning we walked about four miles up 
the river, and, having found a crossing-place, we got 
safely over, though the river was high. The day was 
burning hot, and we reached Johnson’s wagon in the 
afternoon. An attack of English cholera laid me up 
there for several days, and I did not leave till late on 
November 4. I walked hard and reached the St. 
Luey, which I found much flooded, at sunset. In the 
course of the night we heard numbers of Hons, but 
saw nothing of them. 
5 th .— Went into the bush, where the thick foliage 
and underwood and the long grass made the travel¬ 
ling bad and the shooting worse. However, I suc¬ 
ceeded in bagging two bush buck. Ragman, a six- 
months’ old puppy, behaved remarkably well, sticking 
to the second, a young doe, for fully two miles through 
the bush, and finally bringing her to bay at the river. 
He was dead beat when we found him, but he still 
held on like a vice. He is a whelp of great promise, 
bull and greyhound, with a dash of the pointer, the 
best breed possible, and the best feeder I ever saw, 
eating huge rashers of any animal just killed, when 
the sun is at the hottest, at which time very few 
dogs will feed, however hungry, saving us the trouble 
of carrying food for him. The natives make their 
