ntinople--Morisot and the
lion--Game in the Low Country--The Barber encampment--Lion's attack by
daylight--Lions in the donga--The lion's voice--Ways of the lion--The lion
an eater of carrion--Tyrer and the buffalo--Veld fires--A piece of bad
luck--The Low Country rivers--Snakes--Hyenas--Louren Marques--Funeral of
Pat Foote--Discovery of gold near Blyde River--Anticipated affluence
Disappointment

CHAPTER X

Prospectors start for Swaziland--Rumors as to their fate--MacLean and I
decide to follow them--Precautions against lions--The Crocodile River--The
Boer and the pessimist--Game and honey--Crocodiles--Difficulties in
crossing the river--MacLean nearly drowned in the rapids--I go on alone
First sight of De Kaap--A labyrinth of dongas--I reach Swaziland--Baboons
On the trail of the prospectors--The mystery solved--'Ntshindeen's Kraal
Swazi hospitality--How I became celebrated--A popular show--Repairing guns
Character of the Swazis--Contempt for money and love of salt--Prospecting
My welcome outstayed--A dangerous crisis--Return to the Crocodile River
The rhinoceros--Our bearers decamp--We abandon our goods--Attacked by
fever--Terror of partridges--Arrival at Mac Mac.

CHAPTER XI

Weakness after fever--I engage in commerce--Bats--The commandeered cat--My
commercial ineptitude--Tom Simpson surprises--Wolff--Close of my
commercial career--Saulez--His thrashing of the bullies--Gardiner holds up
the bank--Nicknames--Conferring a patent of nobility--"Old Nelly"--"A poor
man's lead"--"Charlie Brown's Gully"--Swindled by my partner--My discovery
on the mountain--A lonely time--Waiting for rain--Disappointment and
despair--Abandonment of my work--Departure--Once more a tramp.

CHAPTER XII

On the road--Heavy rain--Mosquitoes--Natal--Thunderstorms--A terrible night
Maritzburg--My cash runs out--A halcyon day--Hospitality--D'Urban--Failure
to get work--The Fighting Blacksmith and the eccentric old gentleman
Narrow escape of the latter--East London--Experiences in a surfboat--A
Perilous venture--I enter the Civil Service--Further reminiscences
deferred--Au revoir.

L'ENVOI

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ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR . . . . Frontispiece

SPRINGFIELD

THE LAKE, SPRINGFIELD

PORT ELIZABETH IN THE SIXTIES

PORT ELIZABETH IN 1912

4 THE OLD OX-WAGON

KIMBERLEY IN 1873 (LOOKING SOUTH)

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN

KIMBERLEY MINE IN 1873

KIMBERLEY MINE I