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It was a daring ambition to plant the lilies of France up northward, to take in the mighty lakes they had already discovered and to cross the continent and find the sure route to India. There were heroes in those days and afterwards. "If you are ready for your sail and have the courage "
Had the camel appeared, our doubts as to Ben's safety, and the way we should be treated by the hitherto victorious party, would have been set at rest. Just then, amid the clouds of dust which surrounded the combatants, we caught sight of a fresh body of horsemen coming from the northward.
Late in the day, the warriors of the village who had gone out to look for his trail began to return, and when they had made their reports, Henry knew by the disappointment evident on the faces of Red Eagle and the renegades, that they had found nothing. He saw the Shawnee chief give orders to his own men, half of whom plunged into the forest to the northward and disappeared.
Having filled their water-kegs, the next morning at daylight they yoked the oxen and left the banks of the Cradock or Black River, to proceed more to the northward, through the Bushmen's country; but as they were aware that there was no water to be procured, if they quitted the stream altogether, till they arrived at the Vaal or Yellow River, they decided upon following the course of the Black River to the westward for some time, before they struck off for the Vaal or Yellow River, near to which they expected to fall in with plenty of game, and particularly the giraffe and rhinoceros.
The gigantic scale of everything took hold of him. One hundred and fifty thousand men, or near it, were marching northward in two armies which could not be many miles apart. The darkness and the feeling of tragedy soon to come oppressed him. He listened eagerly for the sounds of pursuit, but the long hours passed and he heard nothing. The rear guard did not talk.
But our artillery had the time of their lives, and fired pretty steadily the whole three days of the show." Later he wrote that they were moving northward probably to Hill 60 and we could expect there would be something doing shortly.
The journey northward in 1831 originated in one of those fabulous tales which occasionally become current in the colony of New South Wales, respecting the interior country, still unexplored. A runaway convict named George Clarke, alias The Barber, had, for a length of time escaped the vigilance of the police by disguising himself as an aboriginal native.
We accordingly struck off at an angle in the direction I proposed, and then once more continued our former course northward, keeping a bright look-out ahead and on either side. "If the fellows are still before us, they deserve credit for the speed at which they must have been travelling," observed the lieutenant. "But, notwithstanding, we shall be up with them before dark," I exclaimed.
He said to me, my wife: 'Antoine, will you stay and watch the mine until I come with the birds northward, again? and I said: 'I will stay, and Angelique will stay; I will watch the mine." "This is for his riches, but for our peril, Antoine." "Who can say whither a woman's fancy goes? It is full of guessing. It is clouds and darkness to-day, and sunshine so much to-morrow. I cannot answer."
At length the natives left us, three canoes making to the northward, and two returning to the Duchateau Isles. Morning observations for rating the chronometers having been obtained, we got underweigh soon afterwards, and, bidding farewell to the Louisiade Archipelago, commenced our voyage to Sydney.
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