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Updated: June 11, 2025
I told him what we wanted, and in a grumbling way he climbed in and did as requested, spreading one karosse and drawing the other as a cover up to our chins. "Now loosen the reins about our wrists," I said; "they hurt dreadfully." The man laughed. "It isn't for long," he answered brutally. "Do you want to try to escape, so as to be shot before morning?"
It was a great skin karosse, or rug, such as the Kaffirs make up of the hides of the big game. "It's a cold night," said the man who had spoken before; and, one at my head and the other at my feet, they lifted me between them on the big rug. "Now, sleepy," he said, "rouse up."
He was right; for, as if suspicious, the sentries climbed in, four strong, two standing with rifles at the ready, while the others stripped down the top rug and carefully examined our wrists and ankles, then spread the karosse over us once more, uttering grunts of satisfaction as they did so. Alone again, we lay listening for the movements of the Boer troops: but the sounds had nearly died out.
He has been cutting a long slit in the karosse, and now he has hold of my wrists with one hand, and he's sawing with a knife through the thong with the other." "Val!" panted the poor fellow wildly.
The hot perspiration on my face turned icily cold at this cry, for I heard a quick movement among the sentries, and two of them sprang up on the wagon to look at us lying there upon our backs beneath the upper karosse, under the yellow light of the lantern.
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