. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . t uniform: a court dress,in fact, that had once probably adorned the person of somegreat man when paying his respects to majesty, and withwhich the African chief expressed himself highly gratified. Being desirous of obtaining a likeness of so famous a per-sonage as Afrikaner, I requested him one day to put on thiscostume and allow me to take his portrait. He good-na-turedly consented to my solicitation, and on the followingmorning appeared duly appareled. We rather expected tohave
. Lake Ngami, or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa . t uniform: a court dress,in fact, that had once probably adorned the person of somegreat man when paying his respects to majesty, and withwhich the African chief expressed himself highly gratified. Being desirous of obtaining a likeness of so famous a per-sonage as Afrikaner, I requested him one day to put on thiscostume and allow me to take his portrait. He good-na-turedly consented to my solicitation, and on the followingmorning appeared duly appareled. We rather expected tohave a laugh at him, since his gait and figure were some-what unprepossessing; but we were disappointed. He march-ed up to his seat with as much ease and dignity as if he werefamiliar with the usage of courts. During our stay at Eikhams we became acquainted witha Mr. Eyebrecht, formerly in the missionary employ, but nowJonkers right-hand man. In addition to excellent Englishand Dutch, he spoke the Namaqua and the Damara tonguesrather fluently. As he was well acquainted with the coun- 232 PORTRAIT OF JONKER JONKER AI-KIKAMEK. try, Mr. Galton secured his services for our tour to the east-ward, and he proved of the greatest assistance. On arriving at Eikhams Mr. Galton imagined that his busi-ness with Jonker would soon be arranged; but in this partof the world expedition is not the order of the day, and wewere therefore so long delayed as to prevent our departureuntil the 30th of August. In the course of our journey we encountered a great num-ber and variety of wild animals, and consequently our larderwas Avell supplied. Indeed, in a few hours, on a certainnight, I bagged no less than three hartebeests, two pallahs,and live zebras, and, had I felt inclined, might have shot
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