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It struggled forward, being swept down the stream all the time. Now the horses in the cart also found their footing and we were saved. No, the wet had caused the knot of one of the riems to slip beneath the strain, or perhaps it broke I don't know. Feeling the pull slacken the leaders whipped round on to the wheelers.
Having saddled my mare that was now fresh and fat, we started, the boy guiding me to a certain kloof at the foot of which there was a small plain of good grass where he said the horses were accustomed to graze. Here sure enough we found two of them, and as they had been turned out with their headstalls on, were able to tie them to trees with the riems which were attached to the headstalls.
The whole of the party were next summoned to lay hold of the other ends of the riems, and the driver fixing himself on his box with his whip ready for action, Dos went ahead, and the waggon started. The ground was of clay, excessively slippery, and the party holding on to the riems and running alongside the waggon, found it no easy matter to keep their feet.
It is wonderful how women complicate everything in life, because they are life, I suppose." He thought a moment and went on, "Let's try the river. If we fail, it will be soon over, and it is better to drown than be speared." "Or be kept alive by savages who hate us," I exclaimed, with my eyes still fixed upon Heda. Then I got to business. There were hide riems on the bridles of the leaders.
The wool on his head was wild and thick with neglect, and stood out roughly in long strands; and his skin was rough with want and exposure. The riems had cut a little into his ankles; and a small flow of blood had made the ground below his feet dark. Peter Halket looked up at him; the man seemed dead. He touched him softly on the arm, then shook it slightly.
In vain the driver shouted and yelled; forward they would not go; but began twisting and turning round in their yokes, some facing one way, some another; some dropping down on their knees, others rolling over with the risk of being strangled by the riems which secured them to the yoke. To Crawford's eye they appeared in a state of confusion, from which it would be impossible to extricate them.
He made the fellows tie him up to that little tree before his tent, with riems round his legs, and riems round his waist, and a riem round his neck." "What did the native say?" asked the Englishman. "Oh, he didn't say anything. There wasn't a soul in the camp could have understood him if he had. The coloured boys don't know his language.
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