OUR LITTLE HOME. 71 



After some delay, the cattle were just as suddenly again 

 able to move the waggon without difficulty ; apd the 

 Boer and his family proceeded on their way. They 

 found afterwards that, by this strange interruption to 

 their journey, they had been prevented from encounter- 

 ing an armed party of hostile natives, who just at that 

 time were crossing their road some distance in front of 

 them. 



