CONTENTS. ix 



CHAPTER IX. 



OUR BOER ASSISTANTS AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. 



PAGE 



Pow-wow with the Boers A Bargain struck The Intimidation Game The 

 Cattle-dealer Checkmated At a Standstill In Karkloof Valley A 

 Meeting of Boers Propitiatory Beverage The Sort of Men they were 

 The Boer More Outlay My After-oxen, Ackerman and Brightman 

 Morris ill In my hands An Unexpected Pleasure Jack Bennett 

 More Friends Merry-making Holly to the fore again A Magnificent 

 Midnight Scene Bontebuck Camp struck and Friends part . . 78 



CHAPTER X. 



MY FRIEND INVALIDED. 



One of the Boers' Wagons comes to Grief "We arrange for a New Wheel 

 A Useful Hill Wilful William Another Smash Our Dogs Mother 

 and Child Working like Slaves No Progress Off for Help Hill 

 Cattle in Africa Friendly English They put us to rights Bushman's 

 Biver Accidents to our Horse and Pony The Superintendent of the 

 Natal Mounted Police Morris so 111 that he must Recruit A Sad Meal 

 I Part from my Friend Holly's Sorrow Alone Off for a Hunt The 

 Natal Partridge Quail The Dogs in Full Cry Filling a Pipe : the 

 Various Processes, hurriedly, meditatively, angrily A Shot at Bush- 

 buck The Game at Bay Bring it Down A Warning about Bush-buck 90 



CHAPTER XI. 



CROSSING THE DRACKENBBRG. 



Colenso Curious Custom of Naming Towns An Excellent Cuisine A Smart 

 v. a Handsome Man The Men who get on " The Eising Sun " Fish 

 for Dinner Are not Sardines Fish ? Night-marches Umganey is 

 " Bass's Boy " The Lad's Willingness Morris Rejoins me White 

 Savages The Great Phairshon William's Masterly Activity Choco- 

 late-making Ready for the Ascent of the Drackenberg The Shooting 

 of Olephunts " Do you Englishmans want the Transvaal ? " Native 

 Animus against British Rule Van Renan's Pass Dore's Illustrations 

 of the Inferno The Passage Begun Klipping Crawling on Narrow 

 Escapes Very Cold The Summit is Passed Hurrah ! . . .102 



CHAPTER XII. 



EN ROUTE FOR THE TRANSVAAL. 



Rest after the Passage " We twa hae paidl't in the Burn" Independent 

 of the Boers, if need be Red- water No Cure How the Mystery might 

 be Solved An Extraordinary Finch What a Tail! An Expensive 

 Toll Bob and the Pig Harriemith The Barrack-masters of Old 



