Fresh start for the Zambesi--The Ramaqueban again--A lion shot--Singular building--Wild fruit--First kraal of the Makalakas--Stopped by the induna--Return to Tati--To Gubuleweyo and back--Fresh leave obtained--Altered arrangements for the journey. On first leaving the Tati, on June 9th, the old ground, as though he had been making for Gubuleweyo, was retraced as far as the Ramaqueban River, where, on June 10th, the traveller halted a short time to hunt. Giraffe, quagga, and blue wildebeest were now abundant in this district, and ostriches were also met with. Van Roozen too, the day before they left, succeeded in shooting a lion which had threatened to attack his horse--a great feat for this intrepid sportsman. An account of this adventure, along with some other matter, is given in the traveller’s Journal of this date, as follows:-- [Illustration: Map of M^R F. OATES’S ROUTE from TATI to the VICTORIA FALLS Drawn from his own observations] “_June 12th._--Mild, cloudy day, after a very mild night.... Just before sundown Van Roozen returned from hunting, having shot a lion. It seems he had been following a sable antelope bull, and was about two or three miles from the waggon, down the Ramaqueban, when a lion approached his horse quite close. He yelled, and turned his horse. The lion retreated, but soon stopped and seemed inclined to renew the attack. He dismounted and shot the lion at, he says, about 30 yards. He then saw another lion creeping towards him--both ‘mannetjes’ (males)--and he (Van Roozen) made off. After his return he and I rode back together to the dead lion, which we found, and proceeded to skin. He was a yellow-maned one; Van Roozen says the black-maned one is quite distinct. In this the mane was short, the teeth very large and discoloured, but perfect, and the lion apparently in his prime, though he must have been hungry, as he was in poor condition. Van Roozen was alone when it happened, and he probably wanted to get the horse.