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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
CHAPTEB IX. 
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RESULT OF A ZEBRA HUNT-REACH MERICO-VISIT SECHELE 
--ELEPHANT HUNT-THE BATOKAS-THE ZAMBESI FALLS- 
MEET WITH DR. LIVINGSTONE-INTENSE HEAT-ADVENTURE 
WITH A LION-AM JOINED BY ENGLISH TRAVELLERS-ACCI¬ 
DENT TO ENGLISHMEN-RETURN TO NATAL. 
April YJth.~ — Scoon Spruit — I am now about 450 
miles from Natal, and have got on so far very well, 
on the whole. I have been detained here three days 
in getting three muids of wheat ground. The mill 
was made in the year one, to judge from appearances, 
and it has gone wrong twice since I have been here, 
and delayed me not a little. 
I went out this morning to try and get a zebra, as 
my dogs were very hungry. I soon found a troop, 
and was nearing them at every stride, on my horse 
Midnight, and was within twenty-five yards of a 
fat mare I had singled out, when down came my 
horse in a hole. I picked myself up at a distance of 
sixteen yards from the hole where the horse fell. 
The old horse rolled over me twice or thrice, my 
right foot sticking in the stirrup, but I managed to get 
stirrup, leather and all, away, just before he regained 
