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Shortly after leaving the hills we came again on to sandhills. About midday my hopes were high, as I cut the fresh tracks of two black-fellows. Warri, after a short examination, said, "Yesterday track water that way," pointing in the direction in which they were travelling; not that he could possibly tell which way the water lay, and for all we knew they might have just left it.
"They are strange people to me, and thin with travelling, but they talk a kind of Zulu. The Baas wishes you to come." "Will you come also, Miss Clifford? No? Then forgive me if I leave you," and lifting his hat he went. "A strange man, Missee," said old Sally, when he had vanished, walking very fast. "Yes," answered Benita, in an indifferent voice. "A very strange man," went on the old woman.
The thunder-storm had passed, and the sun had set, when Brown, my blackfellow, suddenly threw back the blanket under which we sat, and pointed out to me a fine comet in a small clear spot of the western sky. I afterwards learned that this comet had been observed as early as the 1st December; but our constant travelling in level forest land had prevented us from seeing it before.
Isbester during the winter is to follow or find out the Indians and collect their furs, and his present journey will appear adventurous to persons accustomed to the certainty of travelling on a well-known road.
If I am not mistaken, you must be well-nigh sixty, and at that time of life travelling in a season like this is assuredly somewhat unpleasant, and but why do you laugh?" "As you refer to my age, my dearest friend, I suppose you will permit me to speak of yours?" "Why not? We are no marriageable girls on the lookout for husbands." "Well, then, my dear General Blucher, how old are yon?"
He said, too, that the pleasure of visiting his home was counterbalanced by the necessity of travelling back to the Netherlands; but he did not know that Perez was to spare him that trouble, and to send him forth upon a much longer journey. The Governor-General, had, in truth, not inspired the popular party or its leader with confidence, nor did he place the least reliance upon them.
If a minister lives at home, and attends the meeting to which he belongs, he supports himself, as St. Paul did, by his own trade. If he goes on the ministry to other meetings, he is received by the Quakers as he travels along, and he finds meat and drink at the houses of these. His travelling expenses also are generally defrayed in this particular case.
That same afternoon the Army of the Valley, quitting without regret Elk Run Valley, found itself travelling an apparently bottomless road that wound along the base of the mountains. "For the Lord's sake, where are we going now?" "This is the worst road to Port Republic." "Why are we going to Port Republic?" "Boys, I don't know. Anyway, we ain't going through the Gap. We're still in the Valley."
It appeared ten miles distant, at least; and seemed to stand alone, its steep sides rising like cliffs above the prairie level. It lay in the course they had hitherto been travelling. "Shall we make for it?" asked they of one another. "What better can we do?" said Basil. "We are as likely to meet the buffalo in that direction as in any other.
Unquestionably the British, fired by their splendid success, were following up their victory with great vigour, and again I was compelled to hide in the long grass into which my native servant, with Ethiopian instinct, had already crept. While I was travelling along on foot my man had rescued my horse from the muddy banks of the river. When all was said and done I had escaped with a good wetting.
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