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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
opportunity offered. Kleinboy lost himself once for 
half a night, and, on his return, made me roar with an 
account of his mishaps. Two jackals baited him all 
the time, endeavouring by their horrid cries to bring 
the lion to him, and he did nothing but run all the 
time at his best pace. He fell into holes and bushes 
over and over again, and he was so bruised and stiff 
as to be hardly able to walk. We got back to 
Swartz’s, without further mishap, about January 6, 
1858. After remaining there three or four days, I 
started for Maquazi with a cart and four oxen, and 
from thence I went to Bloemfontein, one of the 
principal towns of the Orange Biver Free State, with 
a troop of fifty-five oxen, all of which, with one 
exception, arrived there safely. 
