I loosened one side of Tsetse's reins, and after attach- 

 ing one of mine in order to give the necessary 

 length to them threw the end up to Hall, and he cut 

 and handed me a long supple rod for a whip to stir 

 Tsetse to his best endeavours. The water there was 

 rather more than half saddle-flap high ; I know that 

 because it just left me a good expanse of hindquarters 

 to aim at when the moment came. 



" Now ! " yelled Hall, " Up, Tsetse ! Up ! " ; and 

 whack went the stick ! Tsetse reared up, right on 

 end ; he could not reach the top but struck his fore 

 feet into the moist bank near the top, and with a 

 mighty plunge that soused Snowball and me, went 

 out. The tug on the leading rein, on which Hall 

 had thrown all his weight when Tsetse used it to lever 

 himself up, had jerked Hall flat on his face ; but he was 

 up in a minute, and releasing Tsetse threw back the rein 

 to get Snowball to face it while the example was fresh. 



Then for the first time we thought of the crocodiles 

 and the river was full of them ! But Snowball without 

 some one behind him with a stick would never face 

 that jump, and there was nothing for it but to fire 

 some scaring shots, and slip into the water and get 

 the job over as quickly as possible. 



Snarleyow was with us I had left Jock at the 

 waggons fearing that we would get into fly country on 

 the Umbelusi and the bank was too high and too 

 steep for him ; he huddled up against it half 

 supported by reeds, and whined plain- 

 tively. 



To our relief Snowball faced the 

 jump quite readily ; indeed, the old 



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