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CHAPTER III. 
Murder of Lober and Son—Moonlight Scene on the Banks of the 
Orange River—Bushman’s Kraal—Anecdotes of Bushmen— 
Thunder-storm—Ostrich Nest —Melancholy Accident—Gems- 
boks—Tremendous Hail-storm—Awkward situation—Enraged 
Farmer—Immense Flight of Locusts—Beaufort—Zwartberg— 
Hex River—Village of Worcester—Tulbagh—General condition 
of the border Boors. 
CONSIDERING that, under present circumstances, it 
would be advisable to avail myself of the company 
of my friend Jacobs, whom I had left cutting timber 
on the banks of the Orange River, I determined on 
rejoining him; when Mr. Wright very kindly offered 
his waggon, and accompanied me. He informed 
me that, near the place where I had left my waggon, 
a farmer named Lober had halted about twelve 
months before with his sheep, when a party of ma- 
rauding Bushmen and Corannas came up and mur- 
dered him and his son, carrying off his wife, together 
with the sheep, far into the interior. ‘The woman 
ultimately escaped, and made her way to Graaff- 
Reinet, where she related the particulars of the out- 
rage. ‘The principal concerned in this atrocious 
murder was a Coranna, and was at this time known 
to be residing with other marauders in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Haart River, making no secret of 
