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Identifier: storyofafricaits03brow (find matches)
Title: The story of Africa and its explorers
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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s friend WilliamRichardson, of the Bombay Civil Service, astheir starting-point for the interior. It is scarcely necessary to describe theiroutfit and mode of travelling. The pack-oxand the lumbermg Cape waggon, dragged bymany teams of bullocks (Vol. II., pp. 169,180),and driven by a Hottentot armed with a hugewhip, who, in his turn, is preceded by thevoerlooper, or boy in advance, are nowtolerably familiar to every reader of the litera-ture of South African travel. Nor had they A migrationof spring-bucks. morning of the 5th September the mercurystood at 18^ F., and the manes of riding-horseswere decorated with icicles. But in YogelValley large troops of the gnu wereseen for the first time, and soon theface of the country was literallywhite with springbucks, myriads of whichcovered the plains near Boksfontein. Theywere then on their way from one part of thecountry to another better grassed. These trek-bokken, as the occasional immigrationof countless swarms of this species of antelope
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O ftn THE FOUNDER OF THE MATABELE NATION. 193 are called by the Dutch colonists, were, how-ever, by no means welcome. To ofter anyestimate of the numbers would be impossible.Pouring down like locusts from the endlessplains of che interior, whence they have beendriven by protracted drought, lions have beenseen stalking in the midst of this compressedphalanx, and flocks of sheep have not un-frequently been carried away by the torrentof life that has descended on the pasturesthrough which it passes. Cultivated fields, was considered ample pay for a sturdy beasttrained to the waggon. At Kuruman, Mr. Moffat was visited andvaluable information obtained regarding thetravellersproposed visit to Moselik-atse, chief of the Matabele, Aman- CMef of thedebele, or Abaka Zulus, as they Matabele.were then called, whom he formed into anation. This celebrated savage—father ofthe noted King Lo-Bengula (Vol. II., p.178)—played havoc with the emigrant

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