28 ADVENTURES IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



for their spirit and hardiness throughout the colony. I 

 engaged four servants — ^namely, an Englishman called 

 Long, as head-servant, a thorough Cockney, who, as I 

 afterward learned, had formerly been a cab-driver in 

 London, and whom I took into my service at Murphy's 

 recommendation, Long being supposed to possess a cer- 

 tain degree of experience, having penetrated as far as 

 the banks of the Orange River on a trading excursion 

 on his own account ; but his heart, as the event proved, 

 inclined more to worship at the shrine of Venus than 

 at that of Diana. A certain little dark-eyed damsel, 

 who acted as laundress to the military, and who was 

 employed all day in driving her mangle, seemed entire- 

 ly to engross his thoughts. Long frequently observing 

 that "there was that sweet little creature obliged to 

 drive a mangle who^ ought rather to be sitting practi- 

 cing at her ' pihanne.' " 



My other three servants were natives. A wagon- 

 drivor named Kleinboy, a stout, active Hottentot, with 

 the high cheek bones and woolly head of his race, and 

 who was quite au fait at his department. Like many 

 others of his countrymen, he was subject to fits of sulks, 

 and much preferred reclining for hours under my wag- 

 ons, or in the shade of a bush practicing on his violin, 

 to looking after his master's work. My leader's name 

 was Carolius : he was the third whom I had engaged 

 in that capacity, the other two haTdng absconded. He 

 was a stout, powerful fellow, descended from the Mo- 

 zambique races. He entered my service under cover 

 of night, having absconded from Kingsley of " Ours," 

 that gentleman, according to his assertion, being in the 

 habit of administering a little wholesome correction 

 with the jambok, which, on further acquaintance with 

 him, I had reason to believe he richly merited. My 



