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Scotland lately, for he has ploughed Sandy Gillon
in his Bar Final, with the result that Sandy cables that he
is not coming out now. I have written to him pointing
how that no sane man should allow things like that
to interfere with the serious purposes of life, such as climbing
Mont aux Sources.

I came back on Thursday night from my
wonderful holiday, on the whole the best I think I have
ever had. I started on a Monday night with young Brand,
and we travelled all night by train to Machadodorp.
Thence we drove (I riding) over 50 miles of beautiful
green downs to Lake Chrissie, where I have established
a homestead. Early next morning we set out on
horseback to Swaziland (with a man Arthur, a nephew
of the Arthurs in Glasgow, who in spite of having been born
in S. Africa, speaks broad Scots, as our guide.) We saw
a herd of about 300 blesabok [blesbok], and we slept the night in