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We then knew we were in between the Boers and the English but we had no other knowledge of our geographical position. Such being the case we decided to outspan and lunch. Out-spanning is setting the mules and horses at liberty, in-spanning trying to catch them again. It takes five minutes to out-span, and three hours to in-span. We had Armour's corned beef and Libby's canned bacon.
I finally got her on her pony and we raced for Ventersberg with Christian a good first. He had lost all desire to out-span. At Ventersberg we found every one harnessing up in the street and abandoning everything.
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