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Updated: June 26, 2025
"The Krabbetje made me for the kitchen, the bright, clean, snow-white Dutch kitchen, well-nigh three centuries ago, and now I am thought worthy the palace; yet I wish I were at home; yes, I wish I could see the good Dutch vrouw, and the shining canals, and the great green meadows dotted with the kine."
But the wagon she slept in was not there; no, nor that of the Vrouw Prinsloo or of the Heer Meyer." "Thank God!" I gasped, then added: "Where were you trying to get to, Hans, when you ran away from the camp?" "Baas, I thought perhaps that the Missie and the Prinsloos and the Meyers had gone to that fine farm which you pegged out, and that I would go and see if they were there.
Kit brought in the cabbage, and Vrouw Vedder cut it up and put it into the pot of water hanging over the fire. She put the pork and potatoes in too. In a little while the pot was bubbling away merrily; and Father Vedder, who was in the garden, sniffed the air and said, "I know what we are going to have for dinner." While the pot boiled, Vrouw Vedder scrubbed the floor and wiped the window.
After this Pereira grew much more polite. When the bearers became exhausted we set him on the pack-ox, which two of us led, while the other two supported him on either side. It was in this fashion that at last we arrived at the camp one evening. Here the Vrouw Prinsloo was the first to greet us.
"Allan," went on the commandant, pulling out a silver watch like a turnip, "you have just half an hour before we ride, and the Vrouw Prinsloo says that she has made you a wedding meal in that tent there, so you had best go eat it."
On the contrary, the young ladies seated themselves demurely in their rush-bottomed chairs, and knit their own woolen stockings, nor ever opened their lips except to say "yaw, mynherr," or "yaw, yaw, Vrouw," to any question that was asked them, behaving in all things like decent, well educated damsels.
"Come buy a sweet cake; it costs but a cent, Come buy, come buy, from the man in the tent." Vrouw Vedder said, "I promised a cake to the one who beat in the race. We'll go in here and get it." So they went to the tent. They bought two cakes, and each ate half of one. Kat broke the cakes and gave them to the others, because she won the race. When they had eaten the cakes, they skated on.
This point of etiquette settled, Kambula bade me repeat what he had already told me, that we were prisoners whom he was instructed by Dingaan to convey to his Great Place, and that if we made no attempt to escape we should not be hurt upon the journey. I did so, whereon the vrouw asked as I had done, who had informed Dingaan that we were coming.
Then, I suppose in order to make this solemn contract public, Marais called the surviving Boers, who were loitering near, and repeated to them the terms of the contract that we had made. The men laughed and shrugged their shoulders. But Vrouw Prinsloo, I remember, said outright that she thought the business foolish, since if anyone had a right to Marie, I had, wherever I chose to take her.
Dirk and Foy looked at each other, and Martin, who was hovering about near the door, slunk back guiltily into the passage as though he had attempted to injure the Vrouw Jansen. "To-morrow we will look to it, wife. And now let us eat, for we are faint with hunger." Ten minutes later they were seated at their meal.
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