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Seven Years in South Africa.
neighbourhood is in the valley of the Notuany, about three miles below its confluence with the Matebe; it is enclosed by rocky slopes broken here and there by rich glens and luxuriant woodlands that afford cover for countless birds, whilst in the sedge-thickets on the Matebe wild cats nearly as large as leopards lurk about for their prey.
![ON THE BANKS OF THE MATEBE RIVULET.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_024%2C_on_the_banks_of_the_Matebe_rivulet.jpg/450px-Seven_Years_in_South_Africa%2C_page_024%2C_on_the_banks_of_the_Matebe_rivulet.jpg)
ON THE BANKS OF THE MATEBE RIVULET.
We left Linokana on the 23rd, and crossed the Notuany, a proceeding that occupied us nearly two