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the back of anything in my life, as it was very danger¬ 
ous work on account of the number of holes, and the 
exhausted state of poor Beadsman. Kleinboy and 
I shortly after came across three more, and got very 
near before they were aware, but a cow stood 
between us and the only one worth shooting, and we 
had a long chase ere we got a shot. My second 
barrel staggered him, and in fifty yards he fell, rising 
again, however, directly; but thinking Boy would 
now not have much trouble with him, and Beadsman 
being quite done, I left him to finish him. I heard 
so many shots, that I thought he must have found 
another troop, but on comparing notes at night over 
our camp fire, I learned they were all at this same one, 
which got away after all. So ended a fairish day’s sport. 
Lechulatebe sent messengers desiring me to 
come up, or send him tea, coffee, sugar, powder, 
lead, and a horse, saying there had been no 
wagons there for a long time, and his State had 
been burned down and all his stores destroyed. 
I shall send to-morrow in boats what he asks for, 
except the powder, and my people have instructions 
to get as much out of him as possible; but he is a 
niggardly dog, and is accustomed to buy things cheap 
that come from Walvish Bay. 
9 th. — I am left all alone at the wagons, the 
rest of the party having gone, some in boats and 
some on foot, to Lechulatebe’s, at Lake Ngami. I 
have made a last effort to buy corn from him for 
our poor exhausted nags, and am afraid that I shall 
