. ELANDS. to peer from the hill near the lake ! What peace, what rest in the cool shade of this African paradise, beside murmuring streams, after our long tramp across the arid steppes! Till quite late at night the men were carousing in honour of our near approach to the much-longed-for goal, and when the morning dawned there was a joyful stir in the camp such as we had never seen before. Many had put on their l^est clothes in honour of the occasion, others had washed their shirts the day before. The guns were loaded to bursting with powder.

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