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an ugly bend, and a crack you might put a sixpence 
in half round the barrel, and about nine inches below 
the muzzle, and split the stock down the middle, and 
I was entirely thrown out. 
Swartz chased them far; jumped off and killed 
the cow and a large calf right and left, and they lay 
within 150 yards of one another. 
Inspanned in the afternoon, and I stopped behind 
to have a swim. Just before sunset I saw giraffes 
from the wagon, and Swartz and Kleinboy were 
soon in the saddle, and the former killed a fat cow, 
after a very long stern chase. It was full moon, and 
it was about an hour and a half high, when we saw 
a fire some three hundred yards from the road, and 
found Swartz and giraffes there. Outspanned for a 
few hours, and the Kaffirs put nearly the whole of 
the giraffes in the wagons, as we shall not get game 
again for three or four days, being now near 
Sicomo’s. 
4 th. — Inspanned about three o’clock, and got to 
a large vley of good water, called Sangarni, about 
eleven a.m. ; scorching hot; the wagons very, very 
heavy. I had to outspan one of my oxen, which 
had nearly pulled his eyes out. 
To give an idea of the stomachs of the Dutch wo¬ 
men, one proposed they should have a marrow-bone 
between them; the other objected, saying she could 
eat a whole one ! The proposer thought she could 
too, and forthwith they had the two largest broiled 
— nearly a yard long each, without exaggeration — 
