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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
JSTot being able to take the latitude and longitude, 
I do not know where we are, but, judging from the 
inquiries I have made as to the distance from other 
places, I should say we were about 19° S. and 25° E. 
9 th .—No elephants yet. The Masaras will not tell 
us where to find them, or show us the water, or any¬ 
thing, having been threatened by Sicomo, their master, 
with death if they give the least assistance to any 
hunters. We are now outspanned by a stone foun¬ 
tain, and have had a regular morning’s quarrying with 
picks and heavy stones, hurled with all our might to 
break up the rocks under which the spring is, and 
we have succeeded so well that I think most of the 
oxen will be able to get a little, which will be of in¬ 
estimable service to them, as the country is very 
heavy, and the grass dry; we have a long day’s trek 
without a drop before us, and the weather in the 
day-time is intensely hot. 
Denny, a remarkably fine mare, has fallen into a 
hopo or pit-fall of the Kaffirs, and got staked. We 
got her out immediately, extracted the stake, and I 
sewed up the wound, made and buckled a circingle 
very tightly round the body, and kept up a constant 
fomentation to reduce the inflammation, all to no 
purpose ; she died in great agony a few hours after¬ 
wards ; her groans, poor thing, were heartrending. I 
gave 45 guineas for her two months ago ; but, luckily 
thinking her too big, exchanged her with Alington 
for the hunt, so that, though the loss ultimately falls 
on me, it has not inconvenienced me much, for the 
