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Seven Years in South Africa.
not fail also to attract my attention, abounding as they did in the camel-acacias along the way.
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NEST OF WEAVER-BIRDS.
The day’s march was brought to a close in a depression near a brook flowing north-eastwards towards the Taung or Notuany River; and next morning, after making our way through a regular underwood of acacias, we came to a Makalahari