 From 1864 until 1870 he lived at various places in South Africa, but returned as a trader and hunter to Hereroland and Ovamboland between 1870 and 1871.He died at Du Toit's Pan near Kimberley, on 4 February 1872, aged 40 years.In 1857 he married Catherine Cecelia Roome, daughter of Capt.