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Updated: June 13, 2025
Before we came here we had been rich men, chiefs in our own place, but we lost our kraals and cattle and lands; they were sold, others took them and we became poor. Yes, we who were fat grew lean as trek oxen at the end of winter.
Dove, beginning to weaken in face of this desperate alternative. "Of course, father, but if I go to Zululand I want you and mother to trek to Durban, and remain there till I return." "Why, Rachel? It is absurd." "Because I do not think that you are safe here, and it is not at all absurd," she answered stubbornly.
Indeed, during our trek, I had thought the matter out carefully and come to the conclusion that to try to do so would be useless. We must rest and make preparations; also there was no hope of our overtaking these brutes who already had a clear twelve hours' start, by a sudden spurt.
So, Rachel, be as happy as you can, and make the best of things, as I try to do, for your life is all before you, whereas mine lies behind me, and yonder," and she pointed towards the place where the infant was buried. "Hush! here he comes. Now, help me with the packing, for we are to trek to the ford this afternoon."
Two weeks into the cross-country bicycle trek, I pedaled from Utica, New York, to Rochester, where I stayed with Noah, a childhood friend. When I told him the story of my years with Atmananda, he congratulated me for having left what sounded to him like an abusive marriage. In fact, he was surprised that Atmananda did not have sexual relations with the men disciples as a way to control them.
Officially, once a unit is on the move, it ceases to exist till it reaches the next place on the time-table; and if rations or water are lost in the desert you go hungry, and, worse still, thirsty, for there are no more to be had. Most of those who took part in it will remember that trek when others are forgotten.
Then ensued a long trek extending over a period of more than two months, including a day's halt here and there to rest the oxen, or to indulge in a little hunting, during which they enjoyed excellent sport among elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards, giraffe, veldebeeste, zebra, ostriches, and the various species of buck to be found in the southern portion of the great African Continent; so rapidly, indeed, did their spoils accumulate that at length they could no longer find room for them in the wagon, and were glad to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by their arrival at a particularly friendly village to leave everything of the kind, including some eighteen hundred pounds of ivory, in charge of the villagers.
"Ask them to include me, then." "What do you need of events, you regimental broncho-buster?" "One gets sick of even the best horseflesh in time," he answered nonchalantly. "Sorry, for you are doomed to more of it." "Another herd of bronchos?" Weldon's voice showed that the idea displeased him. "No; but a two-hundred-mile trek across country." "Good.
It said simply that all the young men round about him had cleared out and appeared to be moving towards Deira, that he was in the devil of a quandary, and that, since the police were under the Governor, he would take his orders from me. "It looked as if the heather were fairly on fire at last, so I set off early next morning to trek back.
Should he go out alone, it might cost him a long time to find grass and water for both would be necessary and, meantime, his stock would be suffering. These and other considerations decided him at once to "inspann" and "trek" away, with his wagon, his horses, his cattle, his sheep, his "household goods," and his whole family circle.
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