Name. | Use. | Where from. Kambanya | Generally useful | “Given” me by Mr. Hahn. “Rhinoster” | A Guide | Hired from Otjimbinguè. “Bill” | Andersson’s henchman. | Picked up by chance. Kernerootie | { Excellent runner, } | Sent me by Mr. Rath. | { used on every } | | { emergency } | Kahoni | Anything | Picked up by chance. Old Kahoni | Nothing | ” ” ” His Son | Cattle Watcher | ” ” ” Piet from Mozambique | Conversational | { Timboo’s friend, a | | { runaway slave. The grown-up ladies were the wives of Kambanya, “Rhinoster,” and old Kahoni. There were numbers of occasions on which I should have turned old Kahoni away, if he had not been possessed of a little daughter, the nicest, merriest, and slimmest of Damara girls, about eight or nine years old. She won my heart, and I was obliged to tolerate the rest of the family that I might retain her. Besides these twelve I have mentioned, there were two or three others, hangers-on, whom I have forgotten, and perhaps never knew, and the women had three babies, so my party may be considered as about ten Europeans and eighteen natives, or twenty-eight in all. As regards commissariat, my biscuit and every kind of vegetable food was eaten up. I had much too great a weight to carry to be enabled to lade the waggons with provisions also. I had plenty of tea, coffee, and a very little sugar; there were some few trifles besides. The oxen and sheep we drove with us were to be our sustenance, and they alone, excepting now and then a chance head of game. If these oxen strayed by night, and were lost, we should be little better than the crew of a ship in the broad Pacific, who had broached their last cask. The charge of these quadrupeds was now to be my anxiety and care, day and night, for a loose ox in Damara-land is as quickly appropriated as a dropped sovereign in the streets of London. In estimating cattle as so many days’ provision, the calculation I acted on was as follows. A sheep gives twenty meals, no bread or other vegetables being allowed, and a man cannot work _well_ with less than two meals a day. A sheep therefore feeds ten people for one day. An average ox is equivalent to seven sheep, and it therefore feeds seventy people for one day, or thirty-five for two, or twenty-four for three. I cannot accurately say what the quantity of food is that different kinds of game afford, as waste always goes on when one is slaughtered, but, as a rough allowance, I considered—