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"I don't believe they're half so bad as people say," cried Goldboy stoutly. "Maybe no," rejoined Black. "The place is paradise to-day, as you sagaciously remarked, Jerry, but if the Kawfirs come it'll be pandemonium to-morry. It's my opinion that we should get oursel's into a defensible camp as soon as we can, an' than gae aboot our wark wi' easy minds.
"Peace with the Kafirs," said Jerry. "Peace wi' the Kawfirs!" echoed Sandy, in a slightly contemptuous tone. "H'm! they should never hae had war wi' them, Jerry, my man." "But 'aving 'ad it, ain't it well that it's hover?" returned Jerry. "It's cost us a bonnie penny," rejoined Black.
"No, none. Albany is too level for them. It lies along the sea-coast, and is said to be a splendid country, though uncomfortably near the Kafirs." "The Kawfirs. Ay. H'm!" said Sandy, leaving his hearers to form their own judgment as to the meaning of his words. "An' what may your tred be, sir?" he added, looking at John Skyd. The three brothers laughed, and John replied "Trade? we have no trade.
A most needfu' addition, for the jungles o' the Great Fish River or the Buffalo were jist fortresses where the Kawfirs played hide-an'-seek wi' the settlers, an' it's as plain as the nose on my face that peace wi' them is not possible till they're driven across the Kei that bein' a defensible boundary."
"What splendid scenery!" exclaimed Charlie Considine, who was addicted to the pencil. "What glorious sport!" cried his former antagonist, Rivers, who was fond of the rod and gun. "And what aboot the Kawfirs and Bushmen?" asked Sandy Black, who, to use his own language, "could aye objec'." "Time enough to think of them when they appear," said Rivers.
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