to secure him; for when once lassoed by the leg, an active individual could soon snatch the stick. In this way the beast was secured fore and aft, and unless from sulkiness he lay down, could be packed standing. The little red ox was a far more awkward customer than the other. I never witnessed greater vice than the creature showed, and his horns were sadly annoying.
At length, after various delays, the day on which we were destined to start arrived.
The things taken were distributed as follows:
PACK OXEN.
LOAD CARRIED.
GROSS WE:GllT.
IN CART DRAWN BY 8 61ULES.
Ceylon . .
Canvas Bag, NO. I,-
lbs.
IS,
Common guns. . rig
Peas, 45 lbs. 1
Barrel full of presents . 56
Sugar, 48 „ C
97
6 pots and a kettles , rro
Assegais .
$- 6
Stewartson's Ox.
Canvas Bag, No. a,-
Hatchets and spearheads 25
Fore and after chests,
Rice, 4, lbs.
containing small things,
Coffee, 4a ,
Speller, 25
iio
knives, tobacco, tinder
boxes, flints, choppers
Black Ox .
Skin Bag, No. r
and also calico and
dresses . , rg6
Biscuits . 53
Spelter, 75 tbs. 1,
Tools
Dresses, etc. f
185
4 shooting guns (we
Red Ox
Skin Bag, No. 2,--
carried the others) . 36
Clothes, hooks, and per
sonal effects of Anders
]in 1, Is,
son and myself . . X20
BcicekinClothes,
Astronomical instru
a Bars Lead,
130
rnents, etc. , . . 5o
Shot, lossder, )
Natural history instru
Mule
Tent, 4o lbs1
ments 42
Men's sleeping things
and clothes, about
Water, ao 11
90
30 tbs. per man 2io
etc.
-
io89
Everything was weighed with a steelyard that I had taken.
For meat, I only took with me five or six thin goats, as I was quite confident of finding game in the Swakop, where vast quantities had been formerly shot. The day was cool, and we started about eleven o'clock in the forenoon. We had been packing the red and black oxen since the early morning ; for as fast as the bags were tied on, they kicked them off or loosened them. The red ox could
