CHAP. XXI. 
THE GKAND BATTUE. 
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Many horses came down, from the inequality of the 
ground, and it is wonderful that the riders were not 
trampled to death by the throng. 
I must not pass over this first day without re¬ 
counting the Prince’s first experience of hunting at the 
Cape. A keen sporting man named Eeid, at Port 
Elizabeth, had got up a hunt on the road at a place 
called Amsterdam Flats. Beaters and dogs had been 
sent on, and we certainly had some exciting sport in the 
way of small game. Before we reached our first 4 out- 
span ’ there was some very good coursing, and about ten 
head of game were shot or caught by the greyhounds 
merely en passant. One poor fellow who accompanied 
us had his leg broken at the ankle, and the Prince’s 
kindness and sympathy were beyond measure. He did 
the good Samaritan by paying for his conveyance back, 
and for his care while in Grey’s Hospital, the very build¬ 
ing which His Royal Highness had opened the day before. 
On the second day we passed on rapidly over fifty 
miles, and halted that night, after crossing the Bush¬ 
man’s River, at the Nazaar. Nothing of any great note 
happened, except that some of the ‘sailor boys’ began to 
complain that the horses were rough, and they fancied 
that the saddles were not quite so smoooth and com¬ 
fortable as those in England. 
On this day (August 8) we were met by a large con¬ 
course of people from Graham’s Town, the capital of the 
