Diary of a tour in South Africa . acid powder known locally as?• Kerramatata or cream of tartar. It is 146 Diary of a Tour in South Africa. valued by the Boers as a specific against reached Grises Ferry just as the dusk wascoming on, and, in walking home by the riverbank, we saw numerous recent footprints ofhippo. Our friend, the Engineer of thissection of the railway, to whom we wereindebted for much kindness and advice, toldus that the relation of the hippo to barbedwire fencing in that neighbourhood, was aproblem they had failed to solve. They hadput up a number of fences of the st
Diary of a tour in South Africa . acid powder known locally as?• Kerramatata or cream of tartar. It is 146 Diary of a Tour in South Africa. valued by the Boers as a specific against reached Grises Ferry just as the dusk wascoming on, and, in walking home by the riverbank, we saw numerous recent footprints ofhippo. Our friend, the Engineer of thissection of the railway, to whom we wereindebted for much kindness and advice, toldus that the relation of the hippo to barbedwire fencing in that neighbourhood, was aproblem they had failed to solve. They hadput up a number of fences of the strongestbarbed wire they could get, the fence beingmade of several strands of it fixed on stoutposts, and, as far as their observations went,they had come to the conclusion that thehippos walked through it without noticing itspresence. There are also great troops of baboons, andsmall, black-faced monkeys in the district, ofwhich we saw a great many during our baboon appears to be shockingly human A FAMOUS BAOBAB Diary of a Tour in South Africa. 147 in many of its ways. A short time before ourvisit one biggish fellow had the audacity to seathimself on the tennis-court of the hotel, andwas promptly shot by the manager, but onlywounded. The brute made a dreadful jammer,and his chums came out of the bush and carriedhim away, but not before they had tried toextract the bullet. The manager told me thatthe scene was so human, he was sure he couldnever bring himself to fire again at a baboon. During our stay at the Falls, we visited PalmKloof, the Rain Forest, and many other pointsof interest. I have written more about theVictoria Falls than I intended, but my excusemust be that it is a very large subject. Itsfascination is great, and notwithstanding re-peated visits extending over six days, it waswith feelings of great regret that I repackedmy trunk, dined for the last time in the hotel,and joined our car a little before ,crossing the bridge about midnight.
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