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Updated: June 6, 2025
We "outspanned", that is, we unyoked, and "off-saddled" here for luncheon, and found shelter from the sun under a mimosa, which was large enough to merit being styled a tree. Its thorns were from four to six inches in length.
The scout and the batman pitched two "A" tents, and the mother noticed that they were so placed as to be utterly hidden in the thick foliage. The horses were off-saddled, and, contrary to custom, were tethered further still from the road, down by the water. Little Marjorie went off with the men who were securing the horses, and Alice stood watching her husband's movements.
One of our corporals rather impertinently informed De la Rey that he served under another General, and would obey no orders but his. De la Rey thereupon rode up to him and gave him a heavy cut with his lash. I went up to the General, and told him that we were quite willing to fight, and had only off-saddled for a rest by order of our Field-Cornet.
By the stream that runs along past the villages we off-saddled, as both ourselves and our horses were nearly exhausted by the burning heat; but as there was not much time to lose, after a short rest we started off again, and rode on over a bed of magnetic iron lying on the ground in great lumps of almost pure metal, until we came to a stretch of what looked remarkably like gold-bearing quartz, and then to a limestone formation.
Before I crossed the river I heard rifle-fire, but after I had off-saddled for a little while I heard cannon-fire. The firing came from the west, from the direction which Wessels had crossed the river. The cannon-firing also came from the same direction. I mounted a horse and rode up a kopje to see if I could see anything that might be taking place.
I came upon some burghers who, as they had been ordered, had off-saddled at the south side of the river, and I asked them if they had seen the President. As they were Transvaalers, they answered my question in the negative. "But has nobody on horseback crossed here?" I said. "Oh, yes! the Big Constable crossed," one of them replied. "And he told us not to pass over the drift." "What was he like?"
Why why had it affected him last night? It had not been because of Evie. Nan had talked of justice duty. He could see no appeal in either now. Why should he be forced to observance of the laws of justice, or duty toward a woman who ? He stirred restlessly. His attention was drawn to his horse. He moved over to it and off-saddled. Then he returned to his place at the corral.
They brought along horses with them very good horses and Fred prefers a horse trade to triangular flirtation on any day of any week. The gipsies promptly fell to and off-saddled our loads under Gregor Jhaere's eye, transferring them to the meaner-looking among the beasts the women had brought, taking great care to drop nothing in the mud.
After marking down the direction of the peak as well as I could before the light died out on the misty horizon, I waited till it was quite dark, then I selected a star which I calculated was just over where I had last seen the peak, and once more rode on for what must have been three hours; but then, concluding that to ride farther might possibly mean going astray, I walked my horse till a tolerably suitable spot offered itself for a halting-place till daylight, where I off-saddled Sandho, turned him loose to graze, and settled myself down in a patch of thorny bush to pass the night as I could.
Fouché smartly parried the blow, and the next instant the striker was a wounded man, and his comrade a prisoner. In the district of Rouxville the same officer had a similar experience. There, one evening, he came across three of the enemy one a Dutch colonist, the other two Britons off-saddled at a farm. As they did not expect any Boers, their rifles were carelessly left outside the house.
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