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CHAPTER IX. BOBBY. Bobby's babyhood — Insatiable appetite — Variety of noises made by Bobby — His tameness — Narrow escape from drowning — A warlike head-gear — Bobby the worse for drink — His love of mischief — He disarms his master — Meerkat persecuted by Bobby — Bobby takes to dishonest ways — He becomes a prisoner — His clever tricks — Death of Bobby 170 CHAPTER X. OUR SERVANTS. A retrospective vision — Phillis in her domain — Her destructiveness — Her ideas on personal adornment — The woes of a mistress — Eye-service — Abrupt departure of Phillis — Left in the lurch — Nancy and her successors — Cure of sham sickness — The thief's dose — Our ostrich-herd — A bride purchased with cows — English and natives at the Cape — Character of Zulus and Kaffirs 182 CHAPTER XI. HOW WE FARED. Angora goats — Difficulty of keeping meat — The plague of flies —  Rations — Our store — Barter — Fowls —  Chasing a dinner — Fowls difficult to rear — Secretary birds as guardians of the poultry-yard — Jacob in the Karroo — He comes down in the world — He dies —  Antelopes — A springbok hunt — The Queen's birthday in the Karroo — Colonial dances — Our klipspringer — Superstition about hares — Game birds — Paauw — Knorhaan  — Namaqua partridges — Porcupines — A short-lived pet — Indian corn — Stamped mealies — Whole-meal bread — Plant used for making bread rise — Substitutes for butter — Priembesjes — A useful tree — Wild honey — The honey-bird — Enemies of bees — Moth in bees' nests — Good coffee — Sour milk 203 CHAPTER XII. KARROO BEASTS, BIRDS AND REPTILES. Leopard drowned in well — Baboons — Egyptian sacred animals on Cape farms — "Adonis" — A humiliating retreat — A baby baboon — Clever tricks performed by baboons — Adonis as a Voorlooper — A four-handed pointsman — Sarah — A baboon at the Diamond Fields — Adonis's shower-bath — His love of stimulants — His revengeful disposition — Pelops the dog-headed — Horus — Aasvogels  — Goat-sucker — The butcher-bird's larder — Nest of the golden oriole  — The kapok-bird — Snakes in houses — A puff-adder under a pillow  — Puff-adder most dangerous of Cape snakes — Cobras — Schaapsticker — Ugly house-lizards — Dassie-adder — The dassie the coney of Scripture — Stung by a scorpion — Fight between tarantula and centipede — Destructive ants — The Aardvaark, or ant-bear — Ignominious flight of a sentry — Ant-lion — Walking-leaves&# 8201;— The Hottentot god — A mantis at a picnic 237 CHAPTER XIII. OUR NEIGHBOURS. Hospitality of Cape colonists — Cheating and jealousy in business — Comfortless homes — Spoilt children — Education — The "Schoolmaster" — Convent schools — A priest-ridden nation — The Nachtmaal — Old French names — A South African duke in Paris — Fine-looking men — Fat women — Ignorance of Vrouws — Boers unfriendly to English — A mean man 266 CHAPTER XIV. GOOD-BYE. Recalled to England — Regrets and farewells — Cape horses lacking in intelligence — "Old Martin" — A chapter of accidents — A horse "after Velasquez" — The Spy's revenge — Virtues and faults of Cape horses —Horse-sickness — Good-bye to Swaylands — Kaffir crane — The voyage home — Dogs in durance — St. Helena — A visit to Longwood — Home again 277

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

I.	Troop of Ostriches and Cart, with Prickly-Pear Leaves for food				Frontispiece.
II.	1. Jacob. 2. Toto			Facing page	26
III.	Some of the best kinds of Ostrich-bush:--
	1. Brack-bosch.
	2. Ghanna.
	3. Fei-bosch.			"	48
IV.	Our Sitting-room			"	66
V.	Ostriches in a Hot Wind			"	80
VI.	Ostrich-chicks			"	104
VII.	1. Ostrich-chick (Photographed from case in Stanley and African Exhibition)