Chap. XXX. 
AEEIVAL AT TETE. 
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maslieela ” to bring me to Tete. (Commandant’s house: 
lat. 16° 9' 3" S., long. 33° 28' E.) My companions thought 
that we were captured by the armed men, and called me in 
alarm. When I understood the errand on which they had 
come, and had partaken of a good breakfast, though I had 
just before been too tired to sleep, aU my fatigue vanished. 
It was the most refreshing breakfast I ever partook of, and I 
walked the last eight miles without the least feehng of weari¬ 
ness, although the path was so rough that one of the officers 
remarked to me, ‘‘ This is enough to tear a man’s Kfe out of 
him.” The pleasure experienced in partaking of that breakfast 
was only equalled by the enjoyment of Mr. Gabriel’s bed on my 
arrival at Loanda. It was also enhanced by the news that 
Sebastopol had fallen, and the war was finished. 
Note. — Having neglected, in referring to the footprints of the rhino¬ 
ceros, to mention what may be interesting to naturalists, I add it here in 
a note; that wherever the footprints are seen, there are also marks of the 
animal having ploughed up the ground and hushes with his horn. This 
has been supposed to indicate that he is subject to “ fits of ungovernable 
rage but when seen, he appears rather to he rejoicing in his strength. He 
acts as a hull sometimes does when he gores the earth with his horns. The 
rhinoceros, in addition to this, stands on a clump of hushes ; bends his back 
down, and scrapes the ground with his feet, throwing it out backwards, as if 
to stretch and clean his toes, in the same way that a dog may be seen to do 
on a little grass ; this is certainly not rage. 
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