Seven Years in South Africa, Volume 2

Henry's Pan -- Hardships of elephant-hunting -- Elephants' holes -- Arrival in the Panda ma Tenka valley -- Mr. Westbeech's depôt -- South African lions -- Their mode of attack -- Blockley -- Schneeman's Pan -- Wild honey -- The Leshumo valley -- Trees damaged by elephants -- On the bank of the Chobe.

Leaving our encampment in the Tamasetze wood early on the morning of July 20th, we proceeded northwards across the grassy hollow. In the afternoon we were overtaken by a Dutch boy on horseback, very miserably clad. He was not more than fourteen years of age, and in reply to my question whither he was going, he told me that his father, who lived in a hut near the next pool, had sent him to take a waggon, and two negroes to attend to it, all the way to the Makalaka country, to barter beads and calico for kaffir-corn.