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Updated: June 29, 2025
"The black driver and foreloper could be roused out of their sleep, and they take it as a matter of course that they were to drive the wagon somewhere else, and obey at once, especially if they are hurried by some one who speaks like a Boer." "Well, I grant that's possible," said Denham; "but what about the Boer sentries and outposts?
On and on we rode over ground familiar to me, for many a long journey from home had I been in every direction hunting, shooting, or with our wagon and oxen and Joeboy as foreloper, on journeys of many days through the wilderness, to fetch stores for home use or to dispose of game or stock.
"What does he want?" I muttered to myself as I looked on curiously, for I could not hear what was said; but, to my horror, there appeared to be something like a quarrel, as the foreloper suddenly threw down the long bamboo he carried and then squatted upon the ground.
A few minutes later the foreloper on whom so much depended guided, no doubt, by our anxious looks in one direction made out the coming of our friends, and I saw his eyes open widely till there was a great opal ring round the dark pupils. Looking at me despairingly, he pointed with his long bamboo in the direction of the galloping troop. I nodded, and pointed forward.
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