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THE NEW AFRICA 
CHAPTER VII 
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Arrive at Mameeles—Engage two Mosaros—Discontented bearers—Pig and 
quagga hunt—Adventure with baboons—Depth of Chobe—Dye clothes 
w r ith Mopani juice—How skerm is built—Fight with the bearers— 
Hammar and the rooi buck—Strange behaviour of wounded water- 
buck—The Sunta swamp—Paul’s tale of the lions—Reach Linyanti 
district—Strange flight of bullet—How natives hunt game when river 
overflows ......... 73 
CHAPTER VIII 
The Macheeayee—Rapid fall of temperature at night—Dispute with 
bearers—Lions disable game—Native pots—Harris buck or roan 
antelope—Dangerous forest fire—Cross the Sunta—Clever goats— 
Scared from hippo hunt in the moonlight by a lion—Buffalo and eland 
killed—Native language —Our course is altered by peculiar river—Jan 
Veyers threatens to desert ...... 85 
CHAPTER IX 
Jan Veyers leads us into the sand-belts—Great thirst—Find water—How 
French died of thirst—Hyaenas and lions—Grand buffalo hunt—Sub¬ 
sequent row with boys—Weird cry of owl—Jan Veyers remains 
behind—Deserted by the main body of bearers—Make friends with 
the natives living in the reeds ...... 97 
CHAPTER X 
Moheni’s men of great stature—Franz loses heart—Proceed up the Chobe 
—Natives bad shots in general—Native game-lore—The elephant and 
rhinoceros fight for peculiar privileges—Koodoo killed by lions—About 
lions —Lion hunt—First hills seen on the Chobe banks—Puff adder— 
—About snakes and their poison—Wild fruit—Grand forest . . 109 
CHAPTER XI 
Moheni’s deception—Falsity of native chiefs—The way native kings rule— 
Rhinoceros hunt—Too much meat—Best articles for trade—Hammar 
shoots six buck in a few minutes—A holiday—Shaky experience in a 
canoe—Chaffed by natives for our clumsiness . . . . 127 
CHAPTER XII 
Recover our stolen goats—Overburdened with goods—Suspicions—Shoot 
enormous koodoo—Matambanja’s a long way off—I am fearfully scared 
by baboons while hunting hippo in the moonlight—Creeks running 
inland from the river—Kill sable antelope—Sable antelope and lions— 
Jeluka’s old drift—Shoot rooi buck in burning forest—Long-range 
shooting—Bearers lazy from overfeeding—Typical rhinoceros hunt— 
More meat—Peculiar insects—The Loengwe river . . . 137 
