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young scoundrel had seen me, my own life would 

 not have been safe this side of Bamanwato. Killed 

 him ! what does it matter while you are safe. You 

 have fought for us, and you are the only one who 

 will try to bring us protection from these accursed 

 Boers ; and somehow I think you will succeed." 



"Succeed, yes; if in mortal's power," I replied. 



With a shake of the hand and a blessing he 

 again glided from my side, and the bushes and 

 rocks immediately shut out from my view one of the 

 truest patriots I ever met, and he was a Hottentot. 

 How faithfully I have performed my promise to him, 

 many thousands of my own countrymen, as well as 

 my old follower, now know, for without the assist- 

 ance I afterwards rendered the Bechuanas against 

 the freebooting Boers, their country would not be 

 British territory, nor the trade route from the Cape 

 of Good Hope to the interior of tropical South 

 Africa open to our commerce. 



FEMALE HEROISM. 



Among a race of people who have only lately be- 

 come conversant with caligraphy, of course there 

 are no written laws, and therefore precedent seems 

 to be without value, the chief and elders deciding 

 upon all cases that are brought before them strictly 



