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struggles the faster you get; neither horse, dog, ox, 
Kaffir, nor Christian will knowingly face them a second 
time, except by using great care and caution. They 
are most virulent and poisonous in their nature. 
My right knee and elbow are perfectly still. 
A lot of Maccalacas Kaffirs came for water; they 
are poor wretches, called dogs by the Maccateese, and 
are not allowed to eat anything they kill but just 
the intestines ; they must take all the meat to Sechele. 
They had nothing to carry water in but ostrich eggs 
and the intestines of large animals tied fast at 
one end, and they scooped up the water in tortoise¬ 
shells ; they had the eggs slung to their backs in a 
skin or a kind of network, and each of them carried 
from twelve to eighteen. This place is called Lopepes 
vley. Ko spoor of any game coming to drink, and 
seeing ducks which took right away, I judge there 
must be another vley near at hand. 
3 rd. — About eight o’clock the Kaffirs that were 
herding the oxen came to say there were three 
black rhinoceros. We up-saddled and went in pur¬ 
suit, following the spoor not far, however, when we 
saw them, and they at once went straight off. I was 
about twenty yards in the rear, Swartz going at 
a smart gallop, Bryan star-gazing, and pulling hard, 
when down he came, a tremendous bang, right on 
the flint-stones, or rather rocks, breaking both knees 
and grazing his shoulder badly. Luckily, or rather 
unluckily, my gun entirely broke the force of my 
fall, and I was not hurt in the least, but the gun got 
