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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
CHAPTEB VIII. 
1859 . 
SICOMO’s-MASARAS-LAKE NGAMI-LOPEPE-RETURN BY 
VAAL RIVER-ANECDOTES OF CROSSING THE TUGELA. 
May 15 th, 1859.—I pass over the last eight months 
of my life, during which I have been clown to Natal, 
and completely fitted myself out for another hunt in 
the far interior. I am now outspanned near Sechele’s 
—three wagons, forty-seven oxen, five cows, five 
calves, eight horses, six dogs, thirteen servants (Hot¬ 
tentots, Kaffirs, and Bastards), and two companions. 
I am now ten weeks from Natal, and, so far, every¬ 
thing has gone favourably, and looks well and 
healthy. Two oxen have been lost through the 
Kaffirs’ carelessness, and six good horses have fallen 
victims to the South African scourge, inflammation 
in the lungs ; a few dogs have been run over and 
killed, the wagons upset a couple of times or so, 
and a few minor casualties, the natural concomi¬ 
tants of wagon-travelling, have happened, which I 
pass over without more comment. The game has 
been scarce, and unusually wild and shy on the 
trek; and the gunpowder not very straight; and 
