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With the silent bushboy alone by my side, for he was silent, though tremendously excited. His brown rags fluttered in the self-made breeze, and his brown pony scrambled over the ground quite as fast as Rob Roy. We reached a clump of underwood in time, and pulled up, panting, beside a bush which was high enough to conceal the horses.
"Where is the Bushboy?" said Bremen. "Something has happened," cried Swinton; "come all of you with your guns." The whole party, Hottentots and all, hastened toward the rocks where Omrah and Begum had been in search of water.
At last we got up into the mountain region of Glen Lynden, the place to which the Scotch settlers were sent by Government in 1820, under the care of Thomas Pringle, the "African poet," who, among other pieces, wrote the beautiful poem which begins: "Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent bushboy alone by my side." The descendants of the 1820 men now occupy these valleys.
A rhinoceros will destroy the elephant; the lion can make no impression on him, and flies before him like a cat. He is, in fact, the most powerful of all animals; he fears no enemy, not even man, when he is provoked or wounded; and yet he has fallen by the cleverness of that little monkey of a Bushboy. I think, Major, we have done enough now, and may go back to the caravan."
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