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Updated: June 11, 2025
The sun ascended high into the heavens. Its beams seemed to have their focus on the spot where they were standing. They never remembered having experienced a day so hot, or one on which all felt so hungry. Hendrik and Arend became nearly frantic with the heat and the hunger, though Groot Willem still preserved a remnant of calmness. "I wonder if that elephant is watching for us yet?" said he.
"Very well," said Willem; "I, for one, will do all in my power to instruct you. What do you wish to know?" "If we are to stay in this part of the world any longer," continued Hendrik, "I wish some one to give me a good reason for our doing so. I am ready to return home." "And so am I," said Arend. "And I also," added Hans.
Through the street of wine Wijnstraat built over stonehouses used for the staple, we went to the museum to see the pictures. There were two schools of Dortrecht. Jacob Geritee Cuyp ; Albert Cuyp , Ferdinand Bol , Nicolas Maas , and Schalken belonged to the former; Arend de Gelder, Arnold Houbraken, Dirk Stoop, and Ary Scheffer are of the latter.
"It is as I thought," said he, "the brute is still there. He is watching for us. He wants revenge; and I believe that he'll have it. We shall be hungry before we get away from here." "Where is he?" asked Hendrik. "At the pool close by, giving himself a shower-bath; but I can see that he keeps constantly turning his eye in this direction." "Is he alone?" inquired Arend.
In all likelihood, there are scores of them." "Then I say, stop where we are for the present," said Arend. "Alligators are always hungry, and I don't relish to be eaten by them." "I am not yet so hungry as to leave my roer behind me; therefore, I second your proposal," said Groot Willem. It was carried nemini dissentiente. They did stay where they were, but not very patiently.
Drawing the rifle out of the piece of leopard skin with which the lock had been covered, Arend pointed the muzzle upwards and pulled trigger. The gun went off. As the report fainted away in the distance, the far-off sound of a human voice could be heard as if shouted back in answer to the shot. What they heard was the word "Hilloo."
The next morning, when continuing their journey, Arend, who was riding a little in advance, suddenly reined up, at the same time, calling out "I see a kraal and a field of maize." Groot Willem and Hendrik rode forward, and became convinced that Arend was in the right.
The second and third volumes are reviewed with a brief word of continued approbation. A novel not dissimilar in general purpose, but less successful in accomplishment, is Wezel’s “Wilhelmine Arend, oder die Gefahren der Empfindsamkeit,” Dessau and Leipzig, 1782, two volumes. The book is more earnest in its conception.
Macora's suggestion was adopted; and his followers soon constructed a stockade enclosure or kraal, to protect the camp. While this was being done the young hunters were not idle. On the open plain beyond some antelopes were seen grazing, and Hendrik and Arend went after them for the purpose of providing Macora's people with food.
To have gone in any other direction would have been to impale themselves upon the trunks of the other elephants, now also coming towards them, aroused to rage by the cry of their wounded companion. They succeeded in reaching the bank, and thought of throwing themselves into the water; when a shout from Arend counselled them to a different course.
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