CHAPTER XI.

Return of General Cathcart from Basutoland--End of the war--Sporting adventures--Loving tortoises--Evening reveries--A sudden attack from an unknown enemy--Plans for his capture--Unsuccessful--Another attempt--Night vigils--Close quarters--Death of the leopard--Wild-boar hunting--Baboons--My pack of hounds--They are attacked by baboons--Poor Dash’s fate--Snakes, 118