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Updated: June 3, 2025
It came to be understood that in time she might see the wisdom of accepting him, and I, knowing both, and to whom mixed marriages are abhorrent, was convinced that no girl could have been better qualified to fill the position of a bushman's wife. Modest, clever, sympathetic, healthful, none of the stains of the town had ever tarnished her mind.
"Will you not tell me, you yellow demon?" shouted Hendrik, impatient at not getting the answer he wished. "Yaas, baas Hendrik," answered Swartboy; "what you want to know first?" "Where is Willem?" This was a question that, in the Bushman's way of thinking, required some consideration before he could venture on a reply; but while he was hesitating, Congo answered, "We don't know." "Ha, ha!
Tom Hall, taken unawares, bought three Crys from the Pretty Girl, and blushed to find it fame. Little Billy Woods, the Labourers' Union secretary who had a poetic temperament and more than the average bushman's reverence for higher things Little Billy Woods told me in a burst of confidence that he generally had two feelings, one after the other, after encountering that girl.
Leaving the Zwartkops River, not only the Scottish party, but all the other parties, filed successively away in long trains across the Sundays River, over the Addo Hill and the Quagga Flats and the Bushman's River heights, until the various points of divergence were reached, when the column broke into divisions, which turned off to their several locations and overspread the land.
He had now no longer any doubt that the lesser branch outside had been broken, and the large inside branch bruised, by the passage of a Bushman's throw-club. These, their only missile weapons, are usually made of crab-tree, and consist of a very thin short handle, with a large, heavy, and smooth knob.
But they knew at the same time that it was one of the shyest of birds, so shy that it is very difficult to get even a long shot at one. How, then, was it to be approached within range of the Bushman's arrow? That was the point to be considered.
When they rose the next morning, Swanevelt informed them that nine of the oxen were so wounded with the poisoned arrows of the Bushmen, that they could not live; and also, that Piets the Hottentot had been badly wounded in the neck with one of the arrows. Swinton immediately ordered the man to be brought to him, as he was well aware of the fatal effects of a wound from a Bushman's arrow.
But he did not know that she found a pleasure in the sight of his hand scrupulously kept, the nails as well trimmed as a bushman's nails can be, while showing the traces of manual labour. 'How ridiculous they are together! she said softly 'But I like your hand, Colin. It's different from the other men's hands.
This saves the bushman's back, obviating the necessity of his stooping, and, moreover, allows him to get through more work. Also, in after years, when the stumps are rotten, they are more easily pulled out of the ground. By a simple disposition of the direction in which the gashes are cut, the bushman is able to bring down his tree to whichever side he wishes.
I felt indignant, thinking that the house being full the boss had taken advantage of the bushman's helplessness and good nature to put him there. But he said that he was quite comfortable. "I can get a whiff of air here," he said. Going in next day I thought for a moment that I had dropped suddenly back into the past and into a bush dance, for there was a concertina going upstairs.
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