Category: Adventure
VOYAGE TO THE CAPE--DISCOMFORTS OF A LONG VOYAGE--THE WOLF TURNED LAMB-- PORPOISES AND PORTUGUESE MEN-OF-WAR--THE MATE'S STORY--CATCHING A SHARK--AN ALBATROSS HOOKED--CAPE TOWN--ALGOA BAY--OX-WAGGON-- SOUTH-AFRICAN TRAVELLING--OBSTINACY CONQUERED--EXPEDITIOUS JOURNEYING-- FRON...
NARROW ESCAPE--SANDILLI GOES HOME--VOYAGE TO NATAL--MY FELLOW, PASSENGERS--TEMPTING VIANDS--PROPERTY OVERBOARD--NATAL BAY--THE "TICK"-- BEAUTY OF THE VEGETATION--DOLCE FAR NIENT...
10. CHAPTER TEN.A SHOOTING-PARTY IN THE BUSH--ELEPHANT "SIGN"--THE ELEPHANTS HEARD-- CAUTION IN THE BUSH--APPROACH TO A WARY ELEPHANT--THE BETTER PART OF VALOUR--TRACES OF THE WOUNDED ELEPHANT-...
2. CHAPTER TWO.DUTCH AND KAFFIR WORDS--FRONTIER KAFFIRS--KAFFIR WOMEN--KAFFIR SOLDIERS CATTLE-STEALING--BUSH-FIGHTING--COLONEL NAPIER'S OPINION--EQUIPMENT OF ENGLISH SOLDIERS--A BRITISH SOLDIE...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN.AFRICAN MOONLIGHT--POOR CHARLEY--WANT OF PATIENCE--BLUE LIGHT IN THE BUSH--BUCK KILLED BY A LEOPARD--STRANGE FOLLOWERS--PORCUPINE HUNT-- PRACTICAL JOKE--FOOLHARDY CONDUCT--A MIS...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.NECESSITY OF A GUN--STRANGE FOOTSTEP--A DISAPPOINTMENT--VICINITY OF THE UMGANIE--DUIKER BUCK--MATUAN THE KAFFIR--VOCAL TELEGRAPH--REITBOK--A HUMAN POINTER--SINGULAR CONVERSATION...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.JOURNEY TO THE ZULU COUNTRY--HUNGER THE BEST SAUCE--A POPULAR SONG--AN UNEXPECTED GUEST--PANDA'S REGIMENTS--HIS PET VULTURES--AN INGENIOUS SCARECROW--ANOTHER REIT-BUCK--THE TELE...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.A short time before I left D'Urban we had some races on the flat. The horses were not quite equal to those seen at Newmarket; but still, where time is not much noted by the watc...
6. CHAPTER SIX.ELAND-HUNTING--BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY--TELESCOPIC EYES--LOADING AT A GALLOP-- THE DUTCH BOERS--SPEED OF THE ELAND--ELAND-HUNT--UNSUCCESSFUL RESULT-- SIGNALS OF DISTRESS--AFRICAN NIMR...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.THE BIVOUAC--HOTMAN'S STORY--TERRIBLE MISFORTUNE--BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY--HOW TO FIND WATER--KEMP'S STORY--DEATH OF MABILI--SINGLE ELEPHANTS TO BE AVOIDED--HENDRICK AND THE LEO...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.Monyosi, his brother, and my Kaffir Inyovu, were with me across the Umganie one morning, when we came upon the fresh spoor of a single buffalo. The spoor was very neatly taken u...
1. CHAPTER ONE.VOYAGE TO THE CAPE--DISCOMFORTS OF A LONG VOYAGE--THE WOLF TURNED LAMB-- PORPOISES AND PORTUGUESE MEN-OF-WAR--THE MATE'S STORY--CATCHING A SHARK--AN ALBATROSS HOOKED--CAPE TOWN-...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.THE DUTCHMAN'S STRATAGEM--WILD-BOAR HUNT--A VICIOUS PIGLING-- HARTEBEEST-CHASE--HIDE AND SEEK--THE ORGAN OF "LOCALITY"--FATAL CURIOSITY--AN ESCAPADE--A FALSE ALARM--BABOONS AT H...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.During another visit of some months at Pietermaritzburg, where I had some excellent reitbok and ourebi shooting, I accepted an invitation to a friend's residence near the source...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.One morning, Inkau told me that some large buck were in plenty not far from his kraal, and he thought that, with my help, he and his people might be able to have some very good...
9. CHAPTER NINE.BUSH-SHOOTING--SILENT WALKING--HOW TO COCK A GUN--HOW TO SIT DOWN-- DELIGHTS OF THE BUSH--HOW TO OBTAIN HONEY--THE HONEY-BIRD--THE GREY MONKEY--BALL BETTER THAN SHOT--VARIETY OF...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.THE NATAL KAFFIRS--PSEUDO-CHRISTIANITY--IDEAS OF A FUTURE STATE--THE KAFFIR PROPHETS--BLACK LAWYERS--A WIFE'S TRUE VALUE--HUSBAND AND WIFE-- WHITE SAVAGE VERSUS BLACK--INJUSTICE...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.WARNINGS AGAINST THE BUSH--SEARCH AFTER A LEOPARD--UNSTEADY HANDS-- METHODS OF HUNTING ELEPHANTS--SPEED OF THE ELEPHANT--BUSH-TRAVELLING-- TRACES OF THE ELEPHANTS--SOLITUDE OF T...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.One morning Inyovu, in great distress, came to tell me that his father had been bitten by a very poisonous snake, and he was afraid that he would not live. As his kraal was only...