CHAPTER XIV.. Good-Bye.

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) 2. Ostriches meditating Escape through defective fence " 150

VIII. A Meerkat " 158

HOME LIFE ON AN OSTRICH FARM.