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who went as slow as a coach, labouring frightfully 
under his load of beef. It was all I could do to 
come up with them a second time, with an unsparing 
use of a pair of long military rowels, which did me 
good service, and will, I hope, do the like again. I 
eventually killed my eland in the middle of the 
wagon-road, many miles ahead, however, of the 
wagons. January, much better mounted, and very 
light, drove another out to the wagons, where the 
dogs all baited him in grand style, and Boccas 
knocked him over, thus laying in a superabundance 
of delicious meat for both parties. Sechele’s party 
consists of about forty men in all. I have suffered, 
and am still suffering, so much from rheumatism in 
my left shoulder, that I cannot raise my gun, and 
my left hand has sustained a severe bruise, in inspan- 
ning an unruly ox. A leaf of tobacco applied wet, 
and well chewed previously, is our remedy for cases 
where the skin is broken. 
I made this morning a very satisfactory shot at 
a pallah, a beautiful young ram, of about 100 lbs. 
weight, little less than 300 yards off. Finding I 
could not raise my rifle, I made a rest of an old 
dead tree, and took him beautifully through the 
shoulder and heart; he ran about 300 yards in thick 
bush, but old Wolf, coming up about a quarter of an 
hour afterwards, hit off his spoor beautifully, and I 
found him lying dead. 
I have this morning rejoiced the heart of old 
Wildebeest, a Kafflr of Sechele’s, who has come 
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