PREFACE.

THE excursions to which the following pages refer were undertaken at different intervals by the Author, principally for amusement and information, during a residence of ten years at the Cape.

In the course of his " Wanderings," he traversed a considerable portion of the interior of Southern Africa, and succeeded in obtaining an extensive collection of its productions in Natural History, among which were several new and undescribed animals ;-the incidents and adventures that occurred were preserved in a journal not originally intended for any purpose beyond that of private reference, and the amusement of a few friends, to whom a relation of the events connected with these journeys might be matter of interest.

On the Author's return to England, however,

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