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Seven Years in South Africa.
for the greater security of our bullocks. In the afternoon Theunissen and I made an excursion, in the course of which we shot two apes and four little night monkeys, that were remarkable for their fine silky hair and large bright eyes. As a general rule they sleep all day and wake up at night, when they commence spending a merry time in the trees, hunting insects and moths, eating berries, and licking down the gum of the mimosas.
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CROCODILE IN THE LIMPOPO.
One of our servants had a rencontre that was rather alarming, with one of the crocodiles, from which the river derives its name. He was washing