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and fresh, I nursed him for a burst, taking a cool sur¬ 
vey of the length of their horns meanwhile, and soon 
decided on a splendid cow, and when I called on Ferns 
he was alongside in 1,000 yards. The pace was 
tremendous, and I rolled the gemsbok over, and 
narrowly escaped going a header over her myself, 
as she fell suddenly right under Ferus’ nose. I saw 
the first elephant spoor yesterday, and I may now 
fall in with them any day, and have all in readiness; 
it is not, however, my present intention to stay and 
hunt here, but to get a couple of degrees farther 
north, where they are three times as thick, and un¬ 
molested. 
16^A.—I have just been paying a visit to some 
Boers, about twenty miles off, partly from interested 
motives, and partly from compassion for a sick man, 
an old acquaintance of mine, to whom I thought 1 
might be of service, from my experience in African 
fever, and having the usual remedies by me. I found 
him not so sick, however, but that he knew how to 
put on a figure of 60 1. for his horse, which I at length 
was glad to buy for 50/. I leave the wagons to¬ 
morrow to go forward in search of a route free from 
that vile scourge the tsetse, which has turned back a 
party of Boers. 
21st —I have been away only five days from my 
wagons, as I could not proceed, in consequence of 
my Kaffirs not being able to keep up. It is 
terrible hard work to go over the heavy sands on 
foot; my people were dead beat, and the next stage 
