... tall, foreign- looking gentleman who stood beside her, and, tapping him affectionately on the shoulder with her gold eye-glasses, said- Look, cousin-look ...
... at it with his finger, then turning round to point with the assegai towards his rival. For a while I looked at him in silence. He was a curious wizened ...
... of these Kaffir wizards or witch-finders. But Indaba-zimbi persuaded him that he was anxious to investigate the truths of Christianity, and challenged ...
... had been now, with the exception of a few stalks here and there, it was crushed quite flat. It was already dusk when we camped but after the moon got ...
... the others on foot. When we had travelled for the best part of an hour down the valley, all of a sudden we came upon the whole herd, which numbered a ...
... that they might answer that question themselves. Then the herald called again, saying that he saw the cattle had been sent away. We shall go and find ...
... a waggon, slain the man behind it, and sprung into the laager. They were killed there, but others followed, and then I turned my head. But I could not ...
... shoulders. At his feet lay the senseless form of little Tota, to my left squatted Indaba-zimbi, nodding his white lock and muttering something-probably ...
... so we could only make up the fire and take our chance. Shortly afterwards I went to sleep with little Tota in my arms. Suddenly I was awakened by hearing ...
... we should have found it tasteless enough: as it was I thought it the most delicious thing I had ever tasted. After three days spent without food or water, ...
... I would feed her. But I must tell you of the dreadful end of Hendrik. From the day that we captured Hendrika the whole place began to swarm with baboons ...
... on his arm, and, luxury of luxuries, produced a bath hollowed from wood. I rose, feeling a very different man, my strength had come back again to me ...
... to her? Was it the long years of communing with Nature that had endowed her with such peculiar grace, the grace we find in opening flowers and budding ...
... savages around me, for if the fruit of the tree of knowledge is a bitter fruit, still it teaches good from evil. So I educated her as well as I was able, till ...
... the circle of indunas, pointing their thumbs downwards, and all the multitude beyond echoed the word Death. Death, repeated the head induna, adding, ...
... groaned. The light is going fast. The moon rises in three hours, he answered we will search by moonlight. It is useless to start now see, the ...
... from the trunk. Then in turn came the third stage of relaxation, the second stage of stiffness or rigor, and the first stage of after-death collapse. ...
... came on. Nor did we go scathless. Occasionally a man would slip, or be pulled over in the grip of a baboon. Then the others would fling themselves upon ...
... the second night from her burial I could not sleep. I rose, dressed myself, and went out into the night. The moon was shining brightly, and by its ...
... it up. There was something within wrapped in rotting native cloth. I undid it. It was the dress my wife had been married in. In the centre of the dress ...