. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls : a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates . AFRICAN GREY HORNBILL. Tockus Hasutus. work forming a circular wall, inside which are remainsof bricks coated with a substance as if smelting hadbeen done here. No mortar has been used, and thework is rough and I should say of no great antiquity,the stones being small and loose and easily displaced,so that I think they would not stand any greatlength of time. They are cut in an oblong formand properly placed for building. Karl says it wasma
. Matabele land and the Victoria Falls : a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa, from the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates . AFRICAN GREY HORNBILL. Tockus Hasutus. work forming a circular wall, inside which are remainsof bricks coated with a substance as if smelting hadbeen done here. No mortar has been used, and thework is rough and I should say of no great antiquity,the stones being small and loose and easily displaced,so that I think they would not stand any greatlength of time. They are cut in an oblong formand properly placed for building. Karl says it wasmade for smelting copper, and used by the peoplewhom Mosilikatze found here. That it is any olderI should much doubt. Shot here, he concludes, abeautiful sun-bird, whose beauty awoke my slumber-ing love of ornithology. Birds had been scarce of SCARCITY OF GAME. ^Zl late, but became much more plentiful at the Rama-queban, which was reached the following morning. Encamping on this river, they still remained afew days longer in the neighbourhood before finallyseparating, usually taking from here different direc-. YELLOW-BILLED HORNBILL. — Tochis flavirostris. tions during the day in search of game, and meetingagain at night. The game in the district, however,for the most part proved scarce and wild, a circum-stance afterwards accounted for by the fact thatother parties had been and still were hunting theneighbourhood at the same time. There was,nevertheless, abundant evidence of its being a goodgame country; and, as it was, giraffe, koodoo, 134 MATABELE LAND. waterbuck, and sable antelope were met with,besides wild pig, quagga, and sassaybi. The spoorof elephant and rhinoceros was also seen, none of it,however, very recent. The Ramaqueban—at this season a fine broadstream, with long grass and a large undergrowth ofrank weeds upftn its banks—was crossed in many oftheir rambles, and near it on one occasion wereseen the graves of two Englishmen. Started atnine, writes Frank Oates
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