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an extensive farm belonging to a person named Van 

 der Waldt, whose people were busily engaged in 

 clearing the land of a crop of very fine wheat which 

 had been recently destroyed by a violent hail-storm, 

 and was now to be used as fodder for cattle. Shortly 

 after we left this farm, it became quite dark, and 

 Peat, unacquainted with the road, continued to lead 

 us over hills and dales until midnight, when he found, 

 by the barking of dogs, that we were approaching 

 a cattle kraal. Upon enquiring of the people in 

 charge of it, we discovered to our great satisfaction 

 that we had at length reached Botha's Drift, the 

 place of which we were in search. 



