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Updated: June 29, 2025
Swartboy, for some purpose of his own, had cut off the hair before letting them go. Hendrik had no doubt it was they, and that the herd was the same that used to frequent the vley, but that on account of the ill-treatment they had met with, had never since shown themselves in the neighbourhood.
He knew what they were, and had often seen a drove of them perhaps the same one approach the vley and drink. Neither he nor any of his people had molested them, though they might have killed many.
At some distance off it was wooded, but nearer the vley a grassy plain lay spread before the eye like a green meadow. The eyes of the hunter were turned outward on this plain, and just then his glance tell upon a troop of animals crossing the open ground, and advancing towards the vley.
They did not wish to waste powder and lead upon them; neither did they desire wantonly to destroy such harmless creatures. Every evening, therefore, the quaggas had drunk at the vley and gone off again, without exciting the slightest interest. Not so upon this occasion. A grand design now occupied the mind of Von Bloom.
It was nothing unusual to her to see the pretty creatures playing about the branches, or entering the long vertical tunnels that led upward to their nests nothing unusual for Trüey to listen for hours to their sweet twittering, or watch their love-gambols around the borders of the vley.
If you care to ride down to the vley I will show her to you; it won't take us much more than a mile out of our way, and I should like Nell to have her."
"Da's da ole wagon! da same spring an' vley da same place dar hab been um trek-boken!" "A trek-boken!" cried Von Bloom and Hendrik, in a breath. "Ya, baas a mighty big one too; das de spoor of dem antelope See!" Von Bloom now comprehended all. The bareness of the country, the absence of the leaves on the lower bushes, the millions of small hoof-tracks, all were now explained.
They might get one in that way the foremost of the drove; but all the others, seeing the leader caught, would gallop off and return no more to the vley; and where would they set their snare for a second? It might be a long time before they should find another watering-place of these animals; whereas they might stalk and crease them upon the plains at any time. Swartboy now put in his plan.
Even during that night they had heard the roaring of lions down by the vley; and when it was morning, the spoor showed that several of these animals had drunk at the water. How could he leave little Trüey his dear little Trüey or Jan, who was not a bit bigger how could he leave them in an open camp while such monsters were roving about? He could not think of doing so.
The huge body of the elephant coming suddenly into "his sunshine," and flinging its dark shadow over the vley, was distinct enough, and caused the kobaoba to get to his feet with an agility quite surprising for a creature of his build. At the same time a noise, something between a grunt and a whistle escaped him, as the water was ejected from his nostrils.
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