. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls; a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa . d, as allwaggons from Natal are now stopped for fear of thedisease, and Horn had to explain who he was andwhere he came from. Horn, I think, is the manwho opened the Zambesi trade, but is at presenttrading with the Matabele. A lion killed one of hisoxen on the Inkwisi one night whilst he was waitinghere, and a dozen of them took fright and ran assisted in looking for them, and followed up thespoor next day till late in the afternoon, and musthave been close to the oxen, but there was a Sc
. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls; a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa . d, as allwaggons from Natal are now stopped for fear of thedisease, and Horn had to explain who he was andwhere he came from. Horn, I think, is the manwho opened the Zambesi trade, but is at presenttrading with the Matabele. A lion killed one of hisoxen on the Inkwisi one night whilst he was waitinghere, and a dozen of them took fright and ran assisted in looking for them, and followed up thespoor next day till late in the afternoon, and musthave been close to the oxen, but there was a Scotchmist and it was a wretched evening, so, leavingthree Kaffirs to follow and sleep on the spoor, Ireturned to the waggons. Next day the Kaffirsreturned without the oxen, and thus much time waslost. The day after this Horns partner followedthe spoor to the water, but from the water followedup, by mistake, some fresh buffalo-spoor, and slepton it, to come the following morning on to a herd ofbuffalo, which rather astonished him. At last Stoffelset off with him, about four or five days after the. CO I tn Eno Q w Q A REBELLIOUS INDUNA. 209 oxen had strayed, and they succeeded in recoveringthem. Whilst Stoffel was away the dogs began tobark late one night, and a man appeared at the firein a miserable plight. He was a rebellious induna,or headman, whom the king had ordered to bekilled. There are a certain number of indunas, whohave certain districts given them to rule over underthe king, and if they presume too much on theirauthority they are put to death without much of them would be insufferable in their con-duct to white men if the king did not keep themin order. This particular man, I believe, the kinghad given fair warning to, and told him to take ahorse and fly the country, but instead of taking onehe took two, and he was brought before the king,who thought it best to make an end of the took him outside the town, and hacked himwith their axes, leaving h
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