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Updated: June 6, 2025
All too soon my boys called me, and waking, I found that my guest had gone. "Which way?" I asked Jantje. "Nie, baas; ek wiet nie," he said, shaking his head. "Kambala," said I, impatiently, to the other man; "has the ou baas gone?" "Ee-wah t In-koos," he answered in the affirmative; "but where I know not. Ask thou, master, these Bushmen, they know!"
Jantje carried with him the thick stick on which he was so fond of cutting notches. Raising it in both hands be brought the heavy knob down with all his strength upon the one-eyed villain's unprotected skull. It was a thick skull, but the knob prevailed against it, and fractured it, and down went the estimable witch-doctor as though he were dead.
If I put the knife into her she would only make faces, and fire would come out of the hole. I will not go without you, missie." "You must go," she said fiercely; "you shall go!" "No, missie, I will not go alone," he answered. Jess looked at him and saw that Jantje meant what he said.
"Bend forward, Jantje, and I will tell you how;" and Jess whispered for some minutes into his ear. "Yes! yes! yes!" he said when she had done. "Oh, what a fine thing it is to be clever like the white people! I will kill him to-night, and then I can cut out the notches, and the spooks of my father and my mother and my uncle will stop howling round me in the dark as they do now, when I am asleep."
Even their graves will be flat," and Jantje wrinkled up his yellow face into a smile, or rather a grin, and then added in a matter-of-fact way: "Does the Baas wish the grey mare to have one bundle of green forage or two?"
Now Jantje had all a Hottentot's natural love for animals, which is, generally speaking, as marked as is the Kafir's callousness towards them, and he was particularly fond of the dog Stomp, which always went out with him those rare occasions when he thought it safe or desirable to walk like an ordinary man instead of wriggling from bush to bush like a panther, or wriggling through the grass like a snake.
At the last moment it transpired that their black attendants, Mafuta, Jantje, and 'Nkuku were to be left behind on the mainland which arrangement also appeared to bear a certain sinister significance whereupon Grosvenor suggested the extreme importance of placing them in charge of the wagon and its remaining contents, part of which two cases of ammunition, to wit he explained, consisted of terribly powerful magic, any tampering with which by unauthorised persons must inevitably have the most appallingly disastrous results.
"So much the better for you and me, Miss Bessie. We can have a pleasant talk. Where is that black monkey Jantje? Here, Jantje, take my horse, you ugly devil, and mind you look after him, or I'll cut the liver out of you!" Jantje took the horse, with a forced grin of appreciation at the joke, and led him off to the stable.
He immediately replied, in a wonderfully strong voice, considering his condition, that he felt much better, and that his wounds were no longer so painful as they had been; whereupon Dick administered the draught, telling him, still through Jantje, that immediately after taking it he would again fall asleep and so remain until the evening, when he would awake much refreshed and stronger.
Next Jantje scrambled up behind; and after some preliminary backing and plunging, and showing a disposition to twine themselves affectionately round the orange-trees, off went the horses at a hand gallop, and away swung the cart after them, in a fashion that would have frightened anybody, not accustomed to that mode of progression, pretty well out of his wits.
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