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Updated: June 2, 2025
He hung up the telephone and turned back. Holiday-makers at a certain British coast town were treated to the spectacle of an alarm. They gathered on the sands and on the front and watched a dozen English machines trekking upward in wide circles until they also were hovering specks in the sky.
I am trekking to the king's kraal now, and propose to settle there." Ishmael knocked out his pipe and filled it again before he answered. Apparently he could find no words in which to express his thoughts, but when at length these came they were vigorous enough. "Why not trek to hell and settle there at once?" he asked, "I beg pardon, I meant heaven, for you and your likes.
The Penates of the little kraal were not numerous, and were all soon packed either inside or around the roomy vehicle. In about an hour's time the wagon was loaded up, the oxen were inspanned, the horses saddled, and everything was ready for "trekking." And now arose the question, whither?
They had quietly mounted their horses by night and before the sun rose in the morning they were trekking north beyond Modderspruit and Elandslaagte, on the way to Glencoe.
Ramah was before them. They had met no living thing save some wild game trekking to the water, and heard no sound save the distant roar of some beast of prey. Ramah was before them. The moon shone on the roofs of the Mission-house and the little church and the clusters of Kaffir huts beyond.
when suddenly the voice of the field cornet broke into my musing with "Your breeches, too, captain." Trekking all that day on foot, sockless, and in the boots of another, I had much to think of besides my throbbing head.
Indeed I noticed that she was growing very stupid and drowsy, like a person who has been drugged, as I daresay she was, and would insist upon beginning to pack up the things in a foolish kind of way, muttering something about our trekking on the following day.
The Penates of the little kraal were not numerous, and were all soon packed either inside or around the roomy vehicle. In about an hour's time the wagon was loaded up, the oxen were inspanned, the horses saddled, and everything was ready for "trekking." And now arose the question, whither?
What difference did it make that he wasn't trekking through darkest Africa or being hunted by the jungle in India, so long as mother was out of bondage? He even took his allegiance to Anne rather lightly, those first years, he was so absent-minded about everything but hypnotising mother into thinking she was going to be very happy and live a long time doing it.
For when about six miles out from Port Elizabeth, I met a Boer who was trekking in from Uitenhage, and who informed me that, about a mile back, he had been obliged to abandon one of his oxen in a dying condition; and, sure enough, a quarter of an hour later we saw the poor beast lying by the side of the road, with the aasvogels, or vultures, already gathered about it.
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