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Title: Matabele land and the Victoria Falls : a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Oates, Frank Oates, Charles George
Subjects: Natural history Birds
Publisher: London : C.K. Paul
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it up. I then hadso many delays—bad weather, and one thing oranother—that I waited till the big dance was over,which is quite a thing to see when one is here. After this I had difficulties with my men, andhad to part with Hendrik, Dick, and Jacob, all ofwhom you will remember. About Dicks dismissalI had to wait a week or more, as the case had to betried before the king, and Jacob was finally handedover to the tender mercies of Dick. Hendrik I dis-missed for refusing to cut some bushes, to make afence round my waggon to keep the niggers out.This he con iidered * slavish work, and preferred dis-missal to demeaning himself. Then the king wouldinsist on buying my little horse, still well when I leftin January, and got the saddle and bridle for nothing. Since then I have been coming slowly from theKings. I have been hunting, and have Lees brotherto drive for me now, and take me to Mungwato.Here I have fallen in with Captain Garden and hisbrother, and am joining them and some others for
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m. CAMP ON THE SEMOKWE. 143 about three weeks hunting in the veldt. I am spin-ning out the time, so that if I find all things favour-able on reaching Mungwato, I can start in April orMay for the Zambesi. ... I have seen Vincent,the driver, who is death on Solomon.^ He said hewanted to kill him, but did not like to do it withoutyour leave, which he asked, but you said it would berather inconvenient to you just then to have himput out of the way. On the 24th, as already stated, the hunters leftthe Tati, and crossing the Ramaqueban and InkwesiRivers, struck thence eastwards, and crossed theSakasusi or Dry River on the 26th, a crowd of Bush-men, with their wives and children, accompanyingthe waggons. The following day they reached theSemokwe, a fine river surrounded by a sea of greenbush stretching in all directions, and here they formedtheir camp.^ In the evening, writes Frank Oatesin his Journal after their arrival at this point,a boy, who comes from the Zambesi, and knowsthe Falls, whi

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