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SPOET AND WAR. 
CHAP. XXTT. 
I was accompanied by Colonel Dunne, 99th Begt., 
Dr. Cattell, my private secretary, and a small escort of 
Cape Mounted Biflemen, and also by my two daughters, 
with their maid Verendah. We . travelled on horse¬ 
back ; but the ladies sometimes drove and slept at 
night in the spring-wagon built for His Boyal High¬ 
ness Prince Alfred, and given by him to the Natal 
Government in 1860. 
We passed through vast quantities of game en route, 
and had shot almost all descriptions, but had seen no 
lions. On arriving at a farm-house one afternoon we 
saw a splendid lion-skin stretched out to dry: the lion 
had been killed that morning, and the sight of the 
skin of course excited our imaginations. On my ex¬ 
pressing a wish to show my friends some lion-shooting 
(for I had myself been at many lion-hunts before), the 
Dutchmen volunteered to make up a party to proceed 
on the following day to the mountain where the lion 
had been killed, and where they assured us we should 
find the lioness. We accordingly started at daylight 
next morning, reached the mountain, and pitched our 
camp just at dark, having passed through herds of 
large game, shooting hartebeasts, wildebeasts, zebras, 
quaggas, bless -boks, &c. 
All night long we heard the lioness roaring for her 
mate, and at daylight we sent scouts round the mountain 
to see that she did not escape. The Dutch Burghers had 
