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Kraai Eiver. There the five Bushmen grumbled with us and left us. 
They said we did not understand stealing, and would be in their way. 
They took the direction of where the township of Dordrecht now stands, 
and we went down the Kraai River. We found in that direction a fine 
troop of horses belonging to a Dutchman. We drove them off about 
nightfall, and each caught one to ride, having brought bridles with us. 
Ngqika caught a grey mare, and I picked out a brown horse, a good 
one. He was very fiery, and I no sooner mounted him than he com- 
menced to buck with me. The ground was rough, and in the jumps 
the horse gave he fell with me, and I got my knee hurt. The others 
came up and lifted me up again. The horse then went quietly, and 
we started driving ten of the farmer's horses before us. By daylight 
we were in the mountains, and at sunrise we halted and slaughtered 
one of the horses for food ; it tastes like quagga-meat. 
From there we crossed over the mountains at the Ntunjankala 
(Gatberg) and went with the horses to the Indenxa River, near where 
the magistrate Thompson lived (Maclear). From there we went on to 
our kraal at Tsitsa, leaving the horses where we knew we should 
find them. 
We reported what we had done, and two of the horses were handed to 
our chief, according to our custom. Two more we took to a trader and 
sold ; one of these was the grey mare ridden by Ngqika. On our return 
from the trader, near the Bashee, we found that a party of Dutch farmers 
had followed the spoor of the stolen horses. This information came from 
the Bushman tribe. It caused alarm, and the chief had three of us 
caught and tied up. The Dutchmen did not appear, and we were released 
afterwards. This treatment we resented, because what we had done was 
known, and we had presented two of the horses to the chief. Ngqika and 
Jan said they would leave and join the Bushmen. I determined to go 
with them. We went off accordingly with eight of the stolen horses, and 
joined Ngqabayi. Jan's father, Hans, also went, and while living with 
the Bushmen I married his daughter Ndaralu. 
The tribe was then occupying a large cave in the Pryntjesberg. 
Ngqabayi received us cordially, chiefly on account of Ngqika, who was 
half a Bushman himself. We received bows and arrows and became 
members of the tribe. 
Our first expedition from there was under Ngqika : a brave Hottentot 
he was ! There were twelve of us ; Jan was there too, and the rest were 
Bushmen. We crossed the Tsomo, full, at the upper drift, and made for 
the Waschbank. There we found a herd of about a hundred head of 
cattle, and oh ! there were fat oxen among them ! We swam the cattle 
through the Tsomo after getting the whole herd away from the Wasch- 
bank, and then we slaughtered three head ; we took only the breast and 
