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Updated: June 29, 2025
He was determined to destroy the beast before leaving the ground; and he now set to thinking how this could be accomplished in the speediest and most effectual manner. At first he thought of cutting a hole in the door with his knife, large enough to see through and admit the barrel of his roer.
The innocent creatures were unworthy of a shot from his roer, and he passed on without molesting them. He was soon upon a path that showed signs of being nightly trodden by large animals, on their way to the water. Amongst other spoor, he was pleased to observe that of the hippopotamus.
We were surrounded by a great company of Zulus, as I discovered afterwards, over two hundred strong. Thinking that after their fashion they were preparing to attack us at dawn, I called the news to the others, whereon Marais rushed forward, just as he had left his bed, cocking his roer as he came. "For the love of God, do not shoot!" I said. "How can we resist so many?
The positions taken by these were such, that they could guide the herd in the direction of the pit, by merely coming out of the bushes where they lay concealed. In order that they should show themselves simultaneously, and at the proper moment, they were to wait for a signal from the tree. This was to be the firing of the great "roer," loaded blank.
But before he could touch his trigger, Willem's roer delivered its loud report, and the thief fell forward on to the fire. Van Ormon's brother, not heeding the fate of his companion, made some show of resistance; but this was instantly ended by a blow from the butt of Groot Willem's gun, which he now held clenched in his hand.
Inspired either by pity or revenge, he sent a bullet from his roer into the head of the struggling skeleton; and, throwing himself into the saddle, he turned the head of his horse once more towards the house. An attempt had been made to recover the lost giraffes. It had failed. Night was close at hand.
The amount of damage was at length declared by the plaintiff, who was at the same time acting as judge. "Tell them," said he to the interpreter, "that all I require, by way of compensation, will be their own horses along with their guns and ammunition." "What!" exclaimed Groot Willem, jumping to his feet in rage, "Give them my horse and roer? No, not for all the horses in Africa."
They had not slept a wink, however, before they were startled by the loud "crack" of the roer, followed by a short stifled cry that told them the gun-trap had done its work. A torch was procured, and the four hunters proceeded to the spot. There they found the dead body of a huge "tiger-wolf" lying doubled up in the entrance, and right under the muzzle of the gun.
In all likelihood, there are scores of them." "Then I say, stop where we are for the present," said Arend. "Alligators are always hungry, and I don't relish to be eaten by them." "I am not yet so hungry as to leave my roer behind me; therefore, I second your proposal," said Groot Willem. It was carried nemini dissentiente. They did stay where they were, but not very patiently.
The prisoners were compelled to remain inactive spectators of a division of their property, most of which was appropriated by the chief himself, as a sort of compensation for the loss of his horses, and the damage his own person had sustained in the capturing of one of his prisoners. For, before securing Groot Willem, he had been sent to the earth under a blow from that sturdy hunter's roer.
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