Through the Kalahari Desert. G.A. Farini

Through the Kalahari Desert

mine . . . . . . “ 44 House where Livingstone first saw Mary Moffat . . . 58 Mr. Bartlett’s house at Campbell . . . . . . 59 A Boer’s homestead . . . . . . . . 69 Old Mission House, Griqua Town. . . . . . 77 Old Kert, my guide . . . . . . . . 97 Crossing the Kalahari. . . . . . . . 108 Riding on Ox-back . . . . . . . . 123 Wall drawings in Hill-Bushmen’s Cave . . . . . 124 Some Kalahari wild fowl . . . . . . . 129 View of the Desert near Kuis . . . . . . 146 Dirk and Klas to face . . . . . . to face 150 A group of Kalahari flora . . . . . . . 180 Nest of Grosbeak . . . . . . . . 196 King Mapaar and wife. . . . . . to face 223 Vaalpens . . . . . . . . “ 237 Camping by the way . . . . . . . . 241 The M’Kabba dwarfs to face . . . . to face 255 Our laundry on the Desert . . . . . . . 270 Dirk Verlander. . . . . . . . . 276 Death of the Giraffe . . . . . . . . 293

List of Illustrations.

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Lions eating the Giraffe . . . . . .	to face	307
Shooting a Giraffe . . . . . .	. .	321
Drying meat . . . . . . .	. .	325
Stalking the Ostrich . . . . . .	. .	330
Kattea tribe . . . . . . .	. .	350
Ruins on the Kalahari Desert . . . . .	. .	358
The first bath for many months . . . .	. .	361
Dirk Verlander and his “groot-men” . . .	to face	369
Watering the cattle by moonlight . . . .	“	377
A Bastard family . . . . . .	. .	378
K’Abiam pool . . . . . . .	. .	381
Rock Drift . . . . . . .	. .	391
Gorilla Rock . . . . . .	to face	397
Lulu Falls and Chasm . . . . . .	. .	397
Book Rock and Falls . . . . . .	to face	398
Farini Falls and Towers . . . . . .	“	405
The Anna Falls . . . . . . .	. .	409
The Scott Gorge and Falls . . . . .	to face	413
The Diamond Falls . . . . . .	“	414
The Schermbrücker Falls . . . . .	“	415
The Hundred Falls . . . . . .	. .	416
The Hercules Falls at half flood . . . .	. .	425
PLAN of The Hundred Falls of the Orange River .	to face	428
Map of the Author’s route . . . . .	at end

THROUGH THE KALAHARI DESERT.

CHAPTER I

By rail from Cape Town —Over the hills—Drought in the Great Karroo—No rain for three years—An ostrich farm—A well- built railway—The Orange River terminus—Close packing— Crossing the Orange River—Team-driving in South Africa— “Det es nie hotel nie”—Froude’s “Honest Boer”—An oasis—Disappointing “mine host”—Fording the Mud River—Tin- can houses—”Tin Town,” alias Kimberley.

The evening of Friday the 2nd June, 1885, found a crowd of people, travellers with heaps of friends to see them off, and the usual proportion of idlers flattering themselves that they were making good use of their time doing nothing, and of curious onlookers interested in everybody else’s business because they had none of their own to attend to, on the platform of the Cape Town Railway Station. The “mail express,” destined to

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