As it became dark they showed their politeness--a quality which is by no means confined entirely to the civilized--by walking in front, breaking the branches which hung across the path, and pointing out the fallen trees.

On returning to the wagon, we found that being left alone had brought out some of Fleming's energy, for he had managed to come up.
As the water in this pond dried up, we were soon obliged to move again.
One of the Bushmen took out his dice, and, after throwing them, said that God told him to go home.

He threw again in order to show me the command, but the opposite result followed; so he remained and was useful, for we lost the oxen again by a lion driving them off to a very great distance.

The lions here are not often heard.

They seem to have a wholesome dread of the Bushmen, who, when they observe evidence of a lion's having made a full meal, follow up his spoor so quietly that his slumbers are not disturbed.