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24   LIST OF BAGGAGE.   [CHAP. 11.

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.

 

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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