CHAPTER XIX. 



A BRIEE SOJOURN AMONG BOERS. 



Jacob's Engagement at an End My Late Driver "Sprung" Sale of my Oxen 

 I procure some Pets Assumed Indignation at Kama Boers' Cruelty in 

 the Hunt Abuse of Kama's Permission A Visit to Moiloes Its Chief or 

 King Prosperity Mr. Jansen, the Missionary His Untiring Zeal The 

 British Subjects at Zeerust Their Boer Wives The Gothic Episcopalian 

 Church Associations of the Village Church A Hunter's Wagon Trying 

 to Dissuade me Jealousy of the Boers Its Cause An Attempt at Extor- 

 tion It Fails Adieu to Zeerust. 



WITH my arrival at Zeerust Jacob's engagement ter- 

 minates, very much to my sorrow ; for he has proved 

 himself an excellent servant and capital driver in fact, 

 I had never seen any one get so much out of cattle, 

 and use the whip so little. Before paying him, he 

 wished me to let him go on to the elephant country; 

 but, as he was only lent by Mr. Leask, and had a wife and 

 bairns at Klerksdorp, I declined, although nothing would 

 have been more satisfactory to myself. Besides, to 

 have acceded to his- wishes would have been the height 

 of ingratitude to my kind friend. 



I thought Jacob had taken his departure when I met 

 him in the village, decidedly the worse for what he had 

 been imbibing. An hour after he came to me very 

 intoxicated, and asked for a glass of spirits, which, of 

 course, he did not receive. I asked him why he did not 

 go home. Oh, he had spent all his money, or gambled 

 it away, so I gave him half-a-sovereign, and saw him 



