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acting as a very disturbing clement. Then a 

 message arrived, sent by Captain Coventry by 

 native runners, suorcrestinor that I should return to 

 Maclontsie with all haste, as inquiries concerning 

 me were being pressed from Cape Town. 



Colenbrander was strongly of the opinion that I 

 should leave at once, but should follow a route differ- 

 ent from the one I had come by for the first ten miles, 

 thus avoiding two of the principal kraals. After 

 dark the next night, in company with Lynman, a 

 trooper in the corps and a first-class veldt man, 

 who had accompanied me from Maclontsie, we 

 started for Tati, where a man named Farley had 

 a store, and where I had stopped for a night on 

 my northward trek. The distance was about one 

 hundred and twenty miles, and we each rode one 

 horse and led another, riding them by turns. This 

 distance we covered in twenty-seven hours. When 

 we arrived within a few hundred yards of Tati, and 

 could see a light in Farley's hut, I missed hearing 

 the footfall of the horses behind me. On e^oinof 

 back I found the trooper lying on the ground fast 

 asleep and the horses standing by him, so I pulled 

 him out of the track, propped him against a tree, 

 hitched his horses up, and rode on to the store. 

 Farley was not in, but as I thought he would be 

 back shortly, when I intended to go back and fetch 

 in my servant, I lay down on a bench couch in the 



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