CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER XVIII. 
THE HONEY-BIRD. 
A wonderful Bird—Instinct—Showing a Bee’s Nest—Wild Honey—- 
How to find and take a Nest—Death’s-head Moth—Native Super¬ 
stition—Thunder with a ‘Burr’—British Officers put to Plight— 
Nimble Totties—The Doctor—A Sting—Head over Heels—Dutch 
Boers’ Belief—Reasoning—The Rattle—Animal Instinct—Bird 
Wisdom — Taking the Honey. page 160 
CHAPTER XIX. 
LOCUSTS AND WILD HONEY. 
Theories—The Locust Tree—The African Locust—The Plague of 
Egypt—Pood for Man and Beast—John the Baptist—Locust Eggs 
—Larvae—Foot Soldiers—Native Mode of Killing and Curing— 
Locust Flour—Locust Bread and Honey—Locust-birds . 168 
CHAPTER XX. 
THE WATER SPIRIT, A LEGEND OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Native Superstition—Cape Rivers—A Siesta disturbed—The Koonap 
River—Hottentot Venuses—The Spirit walking on the Water- 
Beauties bathing—Alarm—Elsie—The Run Home—Ostriches— 
Wrestling with the Spirit—A Rescue—Awkward Predicament—The 
possessed one—A Sacrifice—Propitiation—Atonement—The sprink¬ 
ling of Blood—Acceptation—Elsie’s Recovery—Typical Superstition 
—Faith—Under the Water.174 
CHAPTER XXI. 
THE GRAND BATTUE, OR ROYAL SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA. 
Cape of G-ood Hope, July 1860—Arrival of H.M.S. ‘ Euryalus ’— 
A Royal Midshipman — Great Rejoicings—Simon’s Bay—Port 
Elizabeth—Birthday Ball—Departure—Leave-taking—Amsterdam 
Flats—A Hunt—Sympathy—Sundays River—Sir Walter Currie 
