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CONTENTS. 
Elephant—Crossing the Bar—A Bump—The Emu Bock—Return 
to SimonV Bay—Elephants’ Heads—The Ball — Memorial of 
Hunt ........ page 222 
gHAPTER XXIV. 
SOUTH AFRICAN LEGENDS : THE MANE-HAIR JACKAL. 
Pilot Fish to the Shark—Jackal to Lion—Animal Magnetism—Trans- 
migration of Souls—Hottentots’ Belief—The Tzhar—Communion- 
ship ...254 
CHAPTER XXV. 
SOUTH AFRICAN LEGENDS : THE ELEPHANT’S EYE. 
A ‘Beam in the Eye’—A wood Fire—A Tit-bit—A Poke—Hippo¬ 
potamus Foot—Good Appetite.256 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
CONTINUATION OF SOUTH AFRICAN LEGENDS: THE 
WOODPECKER’S NEST. 
The Woodpecker tapping—Tat-tat—The Nest—Charmed Sticks— 
Mode of Discovery—Up Stream—Antidote—Bewitched—Flooded 
Rivers—Improvised Boats—A good Swimmer—Confidence . 259 
CHAPTER XXVII. 
A DAY AMONGST THE GNUS. 
Early Days at the Cape—Colesberg—Orange River Banks—Mine Host 
—Hartebeast Huts—Inside Room—A small Window—A bad Night 
—A fair Day’s Sport—In the Veldt—Buffels Vley—A Hot Lake— 
Mrs. De Wet—Aliwal North—The Past, the Present, and the 
Future.262 
