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Seven Years in South Africa.
CHAPTER XVI.
LAST VISIT TO THE DIAMOND FIELDS.
Resuming medical practice—My menagerie at Bultfontein— Exhibition at Kimberley—Visit to Wessel’s Farm—Bushmen’s carvings—Hunting hyænas and earth-pigs—The native question in South Africa—War in Cape Colony and Griqualand West—Major Lanyon and Colonel Warren—Departure for the coast.
FINGO BOY.
When now for the fourth time I reached the diamond. fields I was perfectly insolvent. It was impossible to conceal from myself the difficulty I should find in re-establishing my medical practice, as an absence of a year and nine months had made me little better than a stranger in the place; and yet it was upon my practice alone that I had to rely for obtaining the means of discharging my obligations. Reluctant as
