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Updated: May 16, 2025
One cut the dusty hair from Smith's temple and slit the brim of his hat above his ear; the other struck Seagrue under the left eye, ploughed through the roof of his mouth, and, coming out below his ear, splintered the rock at his back. The shock alone would have staggered a bullock, but Seagrue, laughing, came forward pumping his gun.
Instead of wading before the bullocks, to feel if the ground was solid the woman boldly entered the first swamp, seated upon the top of the load, but when she had proceeded about two hundred yards the bullock sunk into a hole, and threw both the load and herself amongst the reeds; she was nearly drowned before her husband went to her assistance.
"You didn't go to the butcher's?" I asked. "Yes, I did; but he hadn't been there." "Perhaps he's gone out with the bullock drove." "No," said the man; "the oxen are being kept in this morning because the Boers have come a hundred yards nearer during the night. They're well in opposite the gateway, and the Colonel's having our works there strengthened."
"I hardly think, Swamiji, that any automobile has ever penetrated into the interior as far as Biur. It might be best if you all resign yourselves to the ancient jolt of the bullock cart!" As one voice our party pledged loyalty to the Pride of Detroit. "The Ford comes from America," I told the lawyer. "It would be a shame to deprive it of an opportunity to get acquainted with the heart of Bengal!"
Bought some corn and two ass loads of rice; presented Mansa Kussan with some amber, coral, and scarlet, with which he appeared to be perfectly satisfied, and sent a bullock in return; he even prayed for my safety, and told me that he would do his utmost to get us forwards. Bought an ass for twenty bars of amber. At four o'clock put on the loads and departed for Baniserile.
And when the bullock began to lunge again, the men set up a howl, half of triumph, half of derision. I went on, not wanting to see. I went along a very dusty road. But it was not so terrifying, this road. Perhaps it was older. In dreary little Chiasso I drank coffee, and watched the come and go through the Customs.
"Well, a bullock is much bigger than what is on the dish; why don't they bring the rest of the bullock? I could eat it all and then some bread and then some haricots, and then " He is insatiable when he has his napkin under his chin, and it is a happiness to see the pleasure he feels in working his jaws.
From time to time we passed long baggage trains, a hundred or more two-wheeled carts, each drawn by a bullock attached to the tail of the wagon in front. They move at snail's pace, perhaps two miles an hour, and take maybe eight weeks to make the trip across the desert.
"To the south there are sandy deserts where they would certainly die of thirst; to the north trackless forests, cold that would freeze a bullock solid in a night, great rivers miles wide to cross, and terrible morasses, to say nothing of the wolves who would make short work of you.
Wonder if any allowance is made for bullock drivers? or are they supposed to be able to make enough money to retire into some decent life before they die? Well, thank God for one good camp, at all events." "How's the water?" asked Cooper, meeting us at the fence. "Enough for to-night," replied Thompson; "but very little left for posterity." "After us, the Deluge," observed Willoughby.
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