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Now, what think you must be the feelings of the settlers towards these Kafirs and runaway robbers? can they forgive?" Bertha didn't know. She thought their feelings must be very harsh. Diverging from the question, however, she returned to the first regret namely, that her friend Ruyter had joined the Bergenaars. "Hallo!
I can't imagine Ruyter becoming one of those dreadful Bergenaars, about whose ferocious cruelty we hear so much his nature was so different. I can't believe it." "I fear," rejoined Considine gently, "that it is true. You know it is said that oppression will drive even a wise man mad, and a man will take to anything when he is mad."
But they shouted and searched in vain till night compelled them to desist. Meanwhile Van Dyk and Considine had been captured by the Bergenaars. When Charlie overtook the hunter, as already described, his ardent spirit and strong supple limbs enabled him to outrun his more massive though not less enthusiastic companion.
Considine's face wore a troubled look. "I fear," he said, "the news will distress you, for what I heard was that the three men, driven to desperation by the harsh treatment received from their master, have joined one of the fiercest of these gangs of robbers, called the Bergenaars the gang led, I believe, by Dragoener.
The `rust, as they call that strange disease which has totally ruined the first year's crop of wheat, has thrown the most of them into difficulties, and in the midst of this almost overwhelming calamity down came the Kafirs on the Albany District, and the Bergenaars, of whom we have just been speaking, not, like men, to fight openly that were endurable, but like sly thieves in the dead of night, to carry off sheep and cattle from many of the farms in some cases even killing the herdsmen.
Before morning Considine was back in Conrad Marais' parlour, relating his adventures among the Bergenaars with a half-belief that the whole affair was nothing more than a romantic dream. Seated one evening at the door of their dug-out hut or cavern on the banks of the river, the three brothers Skyd discussed the affairs of the colony and smoked their pipes.
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