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cask of wine, standing on its end. It is harvest-time 
here, and the gorge is alive with women going and 
returning with heavy baskets of corn, millet, pump¬ 
kins, and water-melons. 
June 2nd. — -Letloclie .—We stayed at the Bamang- 
wato State four days and a half. Traded a little 
ivory, twelve karosses, fourteen sheep and goats, 
and a few ostrich feathers. Heard that Mosilikatse’s 
commando was on its way to assist Machin against 
Sicomo, and that they were coming in two bodies. 
Sicomo advised us to trek away as fast as possible; 
that he was quite ready to receive them, and had his 
spies out in every direction, and a regular patrol 
kept. I exchanged three cows and a calf for four 
oxen; one was very wild and savage, and detained 
us a whole day, running away, and charging furiously 
at everyone who attempted to turn it. I was mounted 
on old President (so named from having been bought 
from Pretorius, the President of the Transvaal and 
Free-State Republics), who had the heels of the brute, 
and avoided nimbly and well several savage charges. 
We ultimately got the ox tied up to the wagon-wheel, 
and all thrashed him, and inspanned him next morn¬ 
ing, and he treks well. 
Last night, while I was absent enjoying a delicious 
bathe in the fountain, the Kaffirs, in extracting some 
tobacco from under my cartel, managed to discharge 
my rifle in the wagon. The bullet went through 
four double-blankets, a kaross, the cartel, a double 
chest of tea, glanced along a pick, through a barrel 
