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on, and with the assistance of some Bushmen, well 
mounted, excellent riders, and very light weights, 
we succeeded in reaching Bloemfontein at night, 
put them in a stone kraal, and at dawn of day found 
they had all broken out. David and I saddled up 
immediately, and overtook some of the last stragglers 
within a mile of where we had brought them from. 
Holme’s Bushmen, seeing them coming, had pre¬ 
vented them from again joining the troop, or we 
should have had another day’s hard work in driving 
them out. 
We herded them all day, and kraaled them at 
night, and started off again the following morning, 
and reached Bloemfontein and again drove them 
into the kraal, when I gave David most positive 
orders not to leave them till I had had something to 
eat, and then I would come and watch, but I had 
not been long at the inn, when I heard David’s 
voice in the kitchen. I asked him whom he had 
left with the horses, when he said he must have 
something to eat as well as I; whereupon I 
knocked him down, and on his getting up again, 
still inclined to be saucy, I gave him another with 
such right good will, that he went backwards through 
a reed door down about six or seven steps. He made 
off at the top of his speed, exclaiming 4 Alaminta, 
my boss is mull ’ (Almighty, my master is mad); and 
I never set eyes on him again. 
I immediately went to the kraal; every horse 
