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ivory, an I let ma guid fortin slip atween ma fingers. The flees played the mischief wi’ ma oxes, or ma certie I’d hae lookit 
oop the black deevil aince mair in the Morl muntains that lies ower agin the tither side o’ Sillekat’s; but bad luck to thae 
stupit Hottentots, 1 was forced to coom awa wioot him.’— ) 
“And we should have come away without him too,” I replied, “had' we listened to what the Hottentots had to say upon 
the subject; but from the moment I first obtained a glimpse of that buck, I swore that he should die. All the flies in the 
Mural should never have driven me out of those hills without his black hide; and had we not obtained it as we did, — in- 
stead of now talking about him to you at Graham’s Town, I should at this very moment have been still upon his trail.” 
BE LE LBP) J A 2 Z 
Lead of Lbache Anédape; as prescrved tu Che Lritushe Messen 
