. The story of Africa and its explorers. osses-sion. Elephants and zebras had in 1812, theyear when he arrived, suffered no diminutionfrom what the travellers of the preceding-century had to tell of, and fires had to belighted at night to scare away lions and otherwild beasts. On the shores of Burders Lake—so named from the then secretary of theLondon Missionary Society—the missionaryparty shot nine bucks, a quagga, and anostrich, and on their way to the Orange River the journey was rendered exciting by thetravellers hourly risk of falling into the trapsand pitfalls constructed by the natives
. The story of Africa and its explorers. osses-sion. Elephants and zebras had in 1812, theyear when he arrived, suffered no diminutionfrom what the travellers of the preceding-century had to tell of, and fires had to belighted at night to scare away lions and otherwild beasts. On the shores of Burders Lake—so named from the then secretary of theLondon Missionary Society—the missionaryparty shot nine bucks, a quagga, and anostrich, and on their way to the Orange River the journey was rendered exciting by thetravellers hourly risk of falling into the trapsand pitfalls constructed by the natives for thecapture of elephants and lions. ? Campbellssecond journey, which began in 1820, wasshared in by the celebrated Robert Moffatand his wife, the parents of Mrs. Livingstone,during which they reached Kurrichane, thechief kraal of the Marotsi people, and Kuru-man station, or New Lithako, the futurescene of Moffats labours, was established. In-teresting though this and other missionaryjourneys were, the plan of this volume, which. THE REV. DR. MOFFAT. (From a PlwtogmxM hy J. Moffat, Princes St., Edinburgh.) is to trace the opening up mainly of unex-plored Africa, compels us to dismiss them withthis brief notice.^ In the Karrooand other now colonised districts adventuresspringbucks, quaggas, and ostriches ^q^°^^^*were extremely abundant. Haltingby the borders of a pond in the Barolongcountry, not far from the village of Sebateng,Moffat had not long to wait before severallions came to lap the water. Then a buffaloarrived. It was succeeded by two giraffesand a troop of quaggas. The male leader ofthe herd, however, scenting danger, gave a * Campbell, Travels in South Africa (1815-22);Philip, Researches in South Africa among the NativeTribes (1828), etc. LION TALES. 183 peculiar whistling signal, and set off at fullspeed without drinking. A huge rhinoceroswas the next visitor, and, receiving a mortalwound, moved off without troubling thehunters. The white species^ was in those
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