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For month after month the sun beat fiercely, the sky was as brass, and no rain fell. Even the dews seemed to depart. The springs dried up. The river Ukufa, the river called Death, ceased to flow, so that water could only be found in its deepest hollows.
By the following afternoon they came to the koppies through which the river ran, and asked its name. The answer was Ukufa. "Ukufa?" said Thomas. "Why, that means Death." "Yes," was the reply, "because in the old days this river was the River of Death where evil-doers were sent to be slain." "How horrible!" said Dorcas, for unfortunately she had overheard and understood this conversation.
In the centre of this plain was another large koppie of which the river Ukufa, or Death, washed one side. Around this koppie, amid a certain area of cultivated land, stood the "town" of the Christian branch of the Sisa.
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