During the dry season the traveller should not contract fever, unless he happens to have the germs in his system, and in this case he may have been immune the whole wet season, and then the first cold weather brings out the disease and lays him low.
I must now devote a few words to the veldt and to its animal life as we learnt to know it during some delightful weeks spent in camp eight miles from the township, where game was then still abundant.

There we lived in comfortable tents, and our dining-room was built of grass held in place by substantial sticks.

The delight of those days is fresh in my memory.
Up and on our horses at dawn, we would wander over this open country, intersected with tracks of forest.

The great charm was the uncertainty of the species of game we might discover.

It might be a huge eland, or an agile pig, or a herd of beautiful zebra.