. South Africa. lions,sometimes five or six in company. At night theroaring of the lions was dreadful. Dysentery attackedthe little band, and two of the explorers died, GerritBenkeren and another, the first martyrs of South Africanexploration. Once as they were camping on the banksof the Eerste River, while the sergeant was serving outthe provisions, a large Hon sprang upon one of the men,threw him down, and tore him grievously. The ser-geant seized his gun, placed the muzzle against theforehead of the brute, and shot it dead. The skin wastaken home and stuffed and placed in the large hall oft
. South Africa. lions,sometimes five or six in company. At night theroaring of the lions was dreadful. Dysentery attackedthe little band, and two of the explorers died, GerritBenkeren and another, the first martyrs of South Africanexploration. Once as they were camping on the banksof the Eerste River, while the sergeant was serving outthe provisions, a large Hon sprang upon one of the men,threw him down, and tore him grievously. The ser-geant seized his gun, placed the muzzle against theforehead of the brute, and shot it dead. The skin wastaken home and stuffed and placed in the large hall ofthe fort, where it long remained as a memorial of thesergeants gallantry. We next hear of Harwarden,now ensign and member of the Council, making anexpedition to the Cochoquas, a great tribe of the in-terior. The officer made himself very popular withOedasoa, the chief, playing the fiddle merrily as they satround the camp-fire, whilst a certain soldier made alot of fun to the great amusement of all. The ensign,106. A large Lion sprang upon one of the Men VAN RIEBECK who had served in the States army, afterwards toldthe Commander that he had never before seen so manypeople living on so many encampments all on one spot,all full-grown powerful men, living in large round housesmade of mats, 30 or 40 feet in diameter. Oedasoahad three houses for himself, much larger even, and sofull of assegais, arrows and bows as if they were armourrooms. His sleeping place was on a very fine mat in ahole in the ground. Like all the Hottentots he wasdressed in skins, and so besmeared that the fat drippeddown his body. This is their greatest pomp. Theircattle were in such numbers that the end could not beseen. . The sheep alone took three hours to leavetheir kraals, and the cattle not less. The latter werebigger than any oxen ever seen at home, and about2| feet broad on the back and the buttocks. Theywere also so high that he being a very tall person,could scarcely look over the backs of the animals,
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