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They heard the child's gleeful shout the same instant. "I've got you! I've got you!" he cried from without. "He has a water-tortoise," explained Christina with a smile. "Paul," she called aloud, "come indoors." "Ja," shouted the child, and they heard him run up the steps of the stoep. "Look," he said, standing at the door, "I found this in the grass. What sort is it, father?"
One of these is a portion of the vertebral column and sacrum of a buffalo, undistinguishable from that of the Cape buffalo; another is a fragment of a crocodile, and another of a water-tortoise, both undistinguishable from the forms of those animals now living. Together with these, Dr.
The last question struck her sharply, and she glanced about. Little Paul was sitting on a stone, plaguing the water-tortoise with a stick, and speaking to himself and it. The sight reassured her, and she viewed the rider again with equanimity. But now she was able to place him: it was David, and the horse was his big roan.
We crossed the river, or rather over its bed a patch of stones and found some shells of the water-tortoise at the remains of a native fire on the bank: we named the reach Tortoise Reach, in consequence. Here too Mr. Bynoe added some rare and beautiful specimens of finches to his collection.
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