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grass on wliicli to pitcL. our tent. "We now began to eat 
up the rest of tlie flour, drank tlie remainder of tlie 
brandy, ate the arrowroot, wbich. we thought a great treat 
though only made with water and no sugar ; and so well 
had E. judged, that our supplies of rice and flour just held 
out. The next thing was to get up the hill, and this I 
rather dreaded for E. The Caflres without any grub, and 
as I had expected, we found very little game during the 
last three or four days. 
September 4:th. Started before the sun was up, after a 
cup of coffee and a bit of cold meat. Left the bottom of 
the pass at 7-15, and reached the top after about two 
hours' climb ; E. getting on famously, and, as usual, able 
to do more than I had expected. After resting an hour 
or so, E. thought she could go on to the Caffre kraals in 
the valley where the wagons and oxen had remained ; so 
we set off again, and met Christian and one or two Caffres 
coming to meet us with the grey mare, the only one of our 
horses that was left alive, and also bringing some mealies 
for the men. We had come so quickly after the Caffres 
we had sent on to the wagons, that Christian, though he 
started at once, had not been able to get any farther on 
the road to meet us. He was very glad to see us, as 
hearing nothing for so long had almost given us up for 
lost. The other ponies had all died of the ''horse sickness," 
and the grey mare had nearly succumbed, but just struggled 
through. Woodroffe, it turned out, had ridden her back 
to Leydenburg, and she had the sickness there, and had 
not been back at the wagons above a week; however, 
there she was, and we put the saddle on at once, and E. 
rode to the kraal — the men preferred to keep on also as 
they were so near the kraal, instead of waiting to eat the 
mealies at once. The kraal was about seven miles from 
the wagons, and after another rest I thought, as E. was 
anxious to go on, it would be most pleasant to reach the 
