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the most daring and dangerous exhibition of sport that can be conceived, As the scene closes, the spears of the warriors deal 
death around them, affording a picture, thrilling to the sportsman, and striking in the extreme, 
No haunt unsearched, they drive 
From every covert and from every den 
The lurking savage. Deep in his gloomy lair 
The lion etarts, ond morsels yef unchesed 
Drop from his trembling jaws. The shouts 
Of enger hosta through all the eyreling line, 
And the wild hewlings of the beasts within 
Rend wide the welkin. Pressed on, 
At length within the narrow plain confined, 
A listed field marked out for bloody deeds, 
An ainphitheatre more glorloua tor 
Than anciént Rone could boast, they ercwd in heaps, 
Dismayed and quite appalled. Flights of arrows, winged 
With death, and javelins Taunched from every arm, 
Gall sore the brutal band, with many a wound 
Gored through and through. Prostrate on the grownt 
The grinning monstera tic, and their foul gore 
Defiles the verdant plain, With pointed spears men pieree 
Throvgh their tough hides, or ot their gaping mouths 
An easier passage find, The King of brutes 
In broken rosrings breathes his Inst. Thioigh beasts of every kind, 
A atrange promiscucus carnage drenehed in blood, 
And heaps on heaps amassed, grim Slaughter strides along, 
Glutting ber greedy jaws, 
Pitfals of various kinds are also constantly employed to entrap game, and throughout the Matabili country they were of 
almost daily occurrence. The first we saw were at Chooi, to the North of the great saltpan, to which, and similar reservoirs, 
the wild animals resort in great numbers. Excepting a belt of crisp and sour grass, by which it is encireled, the country around 
is destitute of verdure, a few brown stunted bushes being the only covering to the gravelly soil. A tract of low ground is 
occupied by a vast sheet of fine dry crystalized salt, of brilliant whiteness, resembling a frozen lake; and the saline efflorescence 
receiving the impress of the foot in the same manner as hoar frost, was covered with the slot of every species of animal. 
From fifty to a hundred pits were dug at suitable openings left in a high thorn fence which extended in the form of a crescent 
a mile or more on either side, in such a manner that Gnoos, Quaggas, Hartebeests, Sassaybes, and other heavy game, might 
readily be driven into them. These pits, which are called Keisi by the savages, are generally arranged in a treble row, and 
close together, the dimensions in length and depth being nearly the same, by about one half in breadth at the top, but 
gradually contracting like a wedge toward the bottom—an arrangement by which the prisoner becomes jammed and perfectly 
incapable of exertion, the circumscribed dimensions rendering escape impossible. The mouth of the aperture is carefully covered 
over with grass, leaves, or twigs, the mound of mould taken from the excavation being im a little time so grown over as 
not to excite suspicion. ‘To impale the more formidable animals, such as the Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus, a sharp stake is 
sometimes fixed at the bottom, and heaps of whitened bones bear ample testimony to the destruction they have occasioned, 
In those parts of the country that are infested by the Bushman hordes, every paltry pool of water is surrounded by 
a chaih of sunken pits for entrapping game, which, when overgrown with reeds and sedge, not unfrequently prove fatal to 
the straying cattle of a trayeller. Others, which are often constructed in the gorge of two conyerging ranges of hills, and 
have no fence to give warning of their existence, are even more dangerous. Whilst riding down a Sassaybe, whose leg I had 
broken, I onee narrowly escaped being engulphed in one which had a stake at the bottom—the wonnded animal falling into 
another just in time to admit of my perceiving the danger, and putting the horse over what must otherwise have proved 
his grave, Looking for a Rhinoceros, on the road between Mosega and Kurichane, Richardson and myself became so completely 
entangled in a labyrinth of newly-constructed thorn fences, that we had the greatest conceivable difficulty in extricating ourselves. 
Stiff thorn branches, too high to be surmounted, flanked by trunks of trees, were firmly fixed in the ground, and so entwined 
amidst a dense grove of mimosas, that, after fruitless endeavours to force a passage in varions places, we at length found 
that we had actually ridden completely round the enclosure, to the very point at which we had first effected our entrance. 
The painted skins of both the Hartebeest and Sassaybe, but especially of the latter, are in great request amongst the 
savages for Kobes or leathern mautles—as well on account of their brilliant colors, as from the extreme suppleness of their 
nature. The shining black tail, being opened and squeezed flat, depends from the back of the eck like a gueve, the universal 
admiration in which this elegant appendage is held, rendering it the subject of many a quarrel. Ignorant of the process of 
tanning by the use of bark and astringent lyes, the wretched savages, whose time is quite valueless, cure these skins by dint 
of continual rubbing, stretching, and seraping, for which purpose they are constantly carried about, and referred to as an 
amusement in moments of Jeisyre. The process of converting larger hides into leather, however, is one of greater difficulty, 
requiring the united efforts of ten or a dozen hands, who knead in concert, pushing and distending the skin by various 
evolutions, until the object is at length accomplished. This operation, which, to an indolent savage especially, is one of 
great manual labour, is rendered less tedious by the constant addition of grease and ochre, and somewhat less irksome by 
certain savage howlings and gruntings of a nature highly complimentary to the pigs, and doubtless intended to pass current 
for singing, though in fact much more resembling the music of eurs contending over a bone, 
The kobo or kaross, which in addition to the scanty leathern girdle and apron worn by both sexes, forms the aboriginal 
