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AFRICAN HUNTING. 
was two long days on horseback without water, so I 
was obliged to give it up ; but I gained a good deal 
of information about my journey, in case I make 
up my mind to go in that direction. I found no 
elephants, but tsetse in abundance; the country 
awfully heavy and dry, and drawbacks innumerable, 
with nothing to encourage one to proceed. I 
have ridden about seventy miles due north, diverg¬ 
ing west and east considerably for water. Makaina- 
kanyama is the first water, about five hours on 
horseback, riding fast; thence to Jurra, a little farther, 
say six hours ; Tamahopa, Tamashaki, the latter 
about four hours on horseback from Jurra, and my 
farthest; next Dundallah, too far east; and two days 
north we come to the En Duiker and Bonga rivers; 
the latter, my authority says, runs into the Zambesi, 
four days on foot due north, but I think the infor¬ 
mation rests on no good foundation. There was little 
game; only two elands and two quaggas fell to my rifle. 
Snowdon, seven successive days under the saddle, went 
marvellously, as also did Ferus. They had nothing 
but grass, as dry as a chip, to eat. We made the 
horses fast to a tree every night, on account of 
the lions. I saw one solitary old harrisbuck and 
tried to stalk him, but two elands between us gave 
him warning, unseen by me, and he disappeared in 
the thick bush, where it was impossible to give 
chase. 
At Tamashaki I first fell in with the striped 
eland, marked just like a koodoo, but differing 
