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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
felt hunger, though without anything but a little 
boiled corn for sixty-six hours ! 
No one living in crowded England can realise the 
almost endless extent of country ; all bush, without 
rivers, or anything to guide your eye but the 
sun. 
Of course we did not find the wagons without a 
guide. I was the first white man most of these 
Kaffirs had ever seen, and they all came to gaze at 
me, and my beard of six months’ growth astonished 
them marvellously. They would not believe it was 
really growing there until they had pulled at it. 
I envied Donna; she kept on ranging, head up 
and tail going all the time, utterly unconscious 
