The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-03-05

gether a fool, like most white men,
Macumazahn. Yes, yes, 1t Is want OF
imagination that makes people fools;
they won't believe what they can't
understand. You can't understand my
prophecies any more than the fool at
the kraal could understand that was
his master with the lightning. Well, it
is time to trek, but II were you, Ma
cunazahn, should take one wagon, not
two
"Why7" said.
"Because you will lose your wagons,
and 1t is better TO lose one than two"
"Oh, nonsensel' / said.
"All right, Macumazahn, live and
learn" And without another word he
walked to the foremost wagon, put his
bundle into 1t and climbed into the
front seat.
SO having bid an afectionate adieu to
nv white friends, including the old
Scotchman who got drunk In honor OF
tho event, and quoted Burns till the
tears ran down his face, at length j
started and travelled slowly rorthward.
For the first three weeks nothing very
particular befell me. Such Kafiirs as
we came In contact with were friendly,
and game literally swarmed. Nobody
living in those parts Of South Africa
nowadays can have the remotest idea Of
what the veldt was like even thirty
years ago. Often and often have crept
sbivering on TO my wagon-box Just aG
the sun rose and looked out At first
one would see nothing but vast field
of white mist suffused towards the east
by trcmulous golden glow, through
which the tops OF stony koppies stood up
like gigantic beacons. Through the
dense mist would come strange sounds
snorts, gruntings, bellows and the thun-
der OF countless hoofs. Presently this
great curtain would grow thinner, then
it would melt, as the smoke from pipe
melts into the air, and for miles on
miles the wide, rolling country inter
spcrsed with bush opened 10 the view.
But 1t was not tenantless as 1t is now,
for as far as the eye could reach 1t would
be literally black with game. Here TO
the right might be herd Of wilder
beeste that could not number less than
five thousand. Some were grazing,
some gamboled, whisking their wnIte
tails into the air, while all around the
old bulls stood upon hillocks sniff.
fing suspiciously at the breeze. There
in front, thousand yards away, though
TO the Impractical eye they looked much
closer because OF the dazzling clearness
Of tho atmosphere, was great herd Of
springbok trekking along In single file.
Ahi they have come TO the wagon track
and do not like the look Of 1t. What
will they do2 Go back? Not bit Of IT.
II Is nearly thirty feet wide, but that is
nothing TO o springbok See, the first Of
them bounds into the air like ball.
How beautifully the sunshine CLEANS
upon his golden hide. He has cleared
It, and the others come after him In
numberless succession, all except the
fawns, who can not jump so far, and
have TO scamper over the doubtful path
with terrified bah. What is that yon-
der, moving over the tops Of the mimoss
in the little dell at tho foot Of the kop-
pie? Giratfes, by Georgel three Of them;
there will be marrow-bones for supper
tonight Harki the ground shakes be-
hind us, and over the brow Of the rise
rush vast herd OF blesbock. On they
come at full gallop, their long heads
held low = they look Like so many
bearded goats. / thought 50. Behind
them is pack Of wild dogs, their fur
draggled. their tongues iolling. They