African hunting, from Natal to the Zambesi : including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c. From 1852 to 1860 (1863)
Baldwin, William Charles, Powell, W. T. R., former owner. DSI, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : R. Bentley · leaf 402
AFRICAN HUNTING. 358 seeing an upset inevitable, I took a header down stream as far as ever I could go, out of harm’s way, and turned on my back to see the result. The cart had disappeared ; Mick and Inyous, seated on the backs of two middle oxen, were going round in a frightful state of confusion,… … vestige of Matakitakit, who was fastened inside the cart, and I feared that, the cart being turned bottom upwards, all the heavy stones must be on his head. I tried to make up to render assistance, but the stream was too strong, when, to my intense delight, up came Matakitakit about twenty yards…
Hunting
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