thought themselves safe, as they were far more active on the rocks than
Caffres, and could easily keep out of assagy-range; but they little knew
how we were armed, for they had probably never heard the report even of
a gun. Resting my gun against a rock, I took a steady aim at the
Bushman and fired. The man instantly fell, rose again, and waved his
arms, and then dropped dead. His companion instantly bounded off up the
mountains as fast and as active as a klipspringer.

We ran up the rocks to where this Bushman lay, and the Caffres drove
their assagies into him to make sure he was not shamming; he was,
however, quite dead. On looking round we saw a well-worn path leading
to what appeared a solid wall of rock. On approaching the rock we found
a hollow which had been scooped out and formed into a cave, and this was
evidently the Bushmen's home. On entering this cave we were surprised
at the multitude of things inside. There was a lion's skin, and a
necklace formed out of his teeth, two more formed out of his claws;
three leopards' skins; several skins of elands, which were arranged so
as to form a bed. In one corner were about a hundred ostriche's
feathers, whilst nearly a dozen ostriche's eggs filled with water were
round the cave. There was also plenty of dried meat, evidently eland's
flesh, and a number of poisoned arrows. Here then we had come on a
treasure, for the leopard-skins and the necklaces, were much valued
among our tribes. All the animals whose skins had been found in this
cave, must have been killed by the Bushmen with their poisoned arrows,
showing how daring and skilful these men are with their tiny weapons,
for to kill a lion they must have come to within at least forty paces of
him. We secured all these articles, and then called a council of war to
decide whether we should stop in this country in order to kill ostriches
or return with what we had obtained. We at length decided to return;
for we had seen no ostriches, and as they are the most keen-sighted and
fastest of animals, we might wait many days before we even saw one.
Eland, however, were plentiful, and we saw a large herd of them on the
plains; so we divided our party into four divisions--three of these were
to go round on the opposite side of the elands, whilst those of the
fourth party, who had guns, were to lie concealed by some rocks, and the
herd was to be driven up to us. Our plan succeeded well, and the herd
came to within