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SoloaoH's Mil
BV U. 1J1KKU ilA(.O.MU.
At Ia.it, o:itt Iiim it.' :i! v-iiinK ' J nui try,
which in our !ni.: -vl iuii:!i, w .--l.-aiml
aloil' tin fiilt N i : . ; ui;-.:,c
lluro.ili l'o.u; I''. s 11 ;i i.i-.y ru;l
Ull Mjolltf lK' ii I-.t J." 111. .11, Willi IL-I It'li
nandhflls and wi.U' sweeps of vivid green,
dntti'd lu-ie and tht ie :tii K.ilir kraals, and
bordered by a ribbon of li:tt; kiiiI, wliifh
KlKiuU up in pillars tt f. aui wl.oiv it hits tli
rHks. JJut just before ou K't to Uurlntn
tliere is a j'culiar ricliticss alMut it. Tberf
arc the deep klools out in tlie hills by the
rushing rains of rentin ics. down which the
rivers sparkle; there is the dt-Hst green of
the bush, growing as(Jod p!a;itwl it, anf the
other greens of the uie.iUe, Kr-i,s alJ
sii(?ar patches, while hero and there a white
house, smiling out on the placid sea. puts a
finish and gives an air of homeliness to the
scene. For to my mind however teautiful a
iew may be, It requires the presence of man
to make it complete, but perhaps that is be
cause I have lived so much in the wihierness,
and therefore know the value of civilization,
though to be sure it drives away the game.
The Garden of E len, no doubt, was fair be
fore man was, but 1 always think it must
have been fairer when Eve was walking
about it But we had miscalculated a little,
and the sun was well (Town before we
dropped anchor off the Point, and heard the
gun which told the good folk that the En
glish mail was in. It was too late to think
of getting over the bar that night, so went
down comfortable to dinner, after seeing the
malls carried off in the lifeboat.
When we came up again the moon was up.
and shining so brightly over the sea and
shore that she almost paled the quick, large
flashes from the lighthouse. From the shore
floated sweet spicy odors that always re
mind me of hymns and missionaries, and in
the windows of the houses on the Her a
sparkled a hundred lights. From a large
brig lying near eaiiiB tlm music of the sailors
as Uiey worked at getting th ' anchor uj) to
bo ready for the wind. Altogether it was a
perfect night, such a night as you only gel
in Southern Africa, mid it threw a garment
of peace over every body as the moon threw
a garment of silver over everything. Even
the great bulldog, belonging to a spoi ling
passenger, seemed to yield to the gentle in
fluences, and giving up yearning to com" to
close quarters with the balx.eii in the enge
on the t'oc'sle, snored happily in the doer of
the cabin, dreiining no doubt that he had
finished him. and hapv in his dream.
We all, that is. Sir Henry Curtis. Captain
Good, and meil' went and sat at the
wh'iel, and were quiet tor awhile.
'Well, Mr. QuateriiKiin," said Sir Henry,
presently, "have you been thinking about
my proposals?"'
"Ay," echoed Captain Good, "what do
you think of them, Mr. Quatermain? 1 hope
you are going to give us the pleasure of your
company as far as Solomon's Mines, or
wherever the gentleman you knew as
Neville may have gone to."
1 rose and knocked out my pipe before 1
answered. 1 had not made up my mind, mid
wanted the additional moment to complete
it. Before the burning tobacco had fallen
into the sea it was completed; just that little
extra second did the trick. It is often the
way when you have been bothering a long
time over a thing.
"Yes, gentlemen," 1 said, sitting down
arain, "I will go, and by your leave I will
tell you why and on what term3. First for
the terms which 1 ask.
"L You are to pay all expenses, and any
ivory or other valuables we may get is to be
divided between Captain Good and myself.
"2. That you pay me 500 for my services
on the trip before we start, I undertaking to
serve 5ou faithfully till you choose to aban
don the enterprise, or till we succeed, or dis
aster overtakes us.
"3. That before we start you execute a
deed agreeing, in the event of my deatli or
disablement, to pay my boy Harry, who is
studying medicine over there in London at
Guy's Hospital, a sum of 200 a year for five
years, by which time he ought to be able to
earn a living for himself. That is all 1
think, and 1 dare say you will say quite
enough too."
"No," answered Sir Henry, "I accept
them gladly. 1 am bent upon this project,
and would pay more than that for your help,
especially considering the peculiar knowl
edge you possess."
"Very well. And now that I have made
my terms I will tell you my reasons for
nmking up my mind to go. First of all, gen
i 'en, I have been observing you both for
i.ie last few days, and if you will not think
me impertinent, 1 will say that I like you,
and think that we shall come up w ell to the
yoke togetiier. That is something. let me
iell you, when one has a long journey like
this before one.
"Am; !,mv as to the journey itself. I tell
yon llariy. l-!r Henry and Captain Good, that
J do not uu;ik it proi able that we can curuu
out of it aiive. that is. if we attempt to cross
the Sulinia:i Mountains. What was the late
of the old Don da Siiwstra throe hundred
years aao? What was the fate of his tie
seendant twenty years ago? What has beer,
your brother's faW? I tell you frankly, gen
tl. nien, that as their late was so I believe
onrs will be."
1 paused to watch the effect of my words.
Captain Good looked a little uncomfortable;
bat Sir Henry's face did not change. "We
i.;i'st take oar chanc," he said.
"You may perhaps wonder, why, if 1
think this. J, who a:n, as 1 told you, a timid
iu:;:i, should undertake Mich a journey. It
i- lor two reasons.- I-r-t. 1 am a fatalist,
ami believe that my time is appointed to
come quite independently of my own move
nt nt-s. and that it 1 am to go to Suliman's
Mountains to be killed. 1 shall go there and
shail be killed tliere. God Almighty, no
doubt, knows His mind about me, so 1 need
not trouble on that point. Secondly, I am a
po.r man. For nearly forty years 1 have
hunted and traded, but I have never made
more than a living. Well, gentlemen, I
don't know if you are aware that the aver
age life of an elephant-hunter from the time
lie takes to the trade is from four to five
years. So you see I have lived through
about seven generations of my class, and 1
should think that my time cannot be far off
anyway. Now, if anything were to happen
to me in the ordinary course of business, by
the time my debts were paid there would be
nothing left to support my son Harry whilst
he was getting in the way of earning a liv
ing, whereas now he would be provided for
for five years. There is the whole affair in
a nutshell."
"Mr. Quatermain," said Sir Henry, who
had bee?i giving me the most serious atten
tion, "your motives for undertaking an en
terprise which you believe can only end in
disaster reflect a great deal of credit on you.
Whether or not you are right, time and the
event of course alone can show. Bnt wheth
er you are right or wrong, I may as well tell
you at once that 1 am going through with it
to the end, sweet or bitter. If we are going
be knocked on the head, all I have to aav
,TTT"I,?T,T,,
m inut i nope we snail gel a lime snooting
first eh, GoiKl".
Yis, yes," put in the captain. "Wo have
all three of us Keen ai-cuiome I to face tan
tel. and hold our lives in our hands in va
rious ways, so it is no good tinning hack
now."
'"And now 1 vote we go down to the sa
loon and t ikf an ols rvaliou. j i-t fur jucu.
you know." And we did l.iloiigli tne bot
tom of a tuinb cr.
Next day we went ashore, and 1 put Sir
Henry and Captain Good up at the utile
Shanty 1 have on lie IS re.i, and which 1 call
my home. Tle-re are only ti.ree rooms a.i 1
a kitchen in it, and it is built of green brick
with a galvaiii.cd iron roof, but theie is a
good garden with the best loquot trees in it
that 1 know, and some nice young mangoes,
of which 1 hope great things. The curator
of the botanical gardens gave them to me.
It is looked alter by an old hunter of mine,
named Jack, whose thigh was so baiily
broken by a buffalo cow in Sikukuuis coun
try, that he will never hunt again. lint he
can potter about ami garden, being a Griqua
by birth. You can never get your Zulu to
take much interest in gardening. It is a
peaceful art, and peaceful arts are not in his
line.
Sir Henry ami Gnod slept in a tent pitched
in my little grove of orange-trees at the end
of the garden (for there was no room for
theinin the house) and what with the smell
of the bloom and the sight of the green and
golden fruit for in Durban you will see all
three on the tree together 1 dare say it is a
pleasant place enough (for we have few
mosquitoes here unless it happens to come
an unusually heavy rain).
Well, to get on for unless 1 do you will
be tired of my story before we fetch up at
Suliman's Mountains having once made up
my mind to go 1 set about making tin;
necessary preparations. First 1 got the deed
from Sir Henry, providing for my boy in
case of accMent. There was some little
diffculty alMiiit getting this legally executed,
as Sir Henry was a stranger here, and the
property to be charged was over the water,
but it was ultimately got over with the help
of a lawyer, who charged :i;) for the job a
price that J thought outrageous. Then I got
my cheek for VJ0. Having paid this tribute
to my bump of camion. 1 bought a wagon
ami a span of ox -n o:i Sir llcnrv's U-half;
and beauties they were. It vas a twenty-two-foot
wagon, with iron axles, very
strong, very light, and built throughout of
stink-wood. It was not quiie a new one,
having been to the 1 ann u l 1'iehis and
back, but in my opinion it w,n ail the but
ter for that, for one could see that the wood
was well seasoned. If anything is going to
give in a wagon, or if there is green wood in
it, it will show out on the hist trip. It was
what we call a "lialf-tent'd" wagon, that is
to say, it was only covered in over the alter
twelve feet, leaving all the front pirt free
for the necessaries we had to carry with us.
in this after-part was a hide "cartle," cr
bed, on which two people could sleep, also
racks for rifles, and in iny oth'-r little con
veniences. I gave l'Jo for it. and think it
was cheap at that price. Then I Iioiight a
beautiful team of twenty salted Zulu oxen,
which I had had my eye on for a year or
two. Sixteen oxen are the usual nutuJer for
a team, but 1 had four extra to ai:ow for
casualties. These Zulu oxen aro siaai! and
light, not more than half the size of the
Africander oxen, which are generally u.-ed
for transport purMses; but they will live
where the Africanders will starve, and with
a light load will make rive miles a day bet
ter going, being quicker and not so liable to
get footsore.
What is more, this lot were thoroughly
"salted," that is, they hail worked all over
South Africa, and so had become proof
(comparatively speaking) against red wa
ter, which so frequently destroys whole
teams of oxen when they get on to strange
"veldt" (grass country). As for "lung
sick," which is a dreadful form of pneumo
nia, very prevalent in this country, they had
all been inoculated against it This is done
by cutting a slit in the tail of an ox, and
binding in a piece of the diseased lung of an
animal which has died of the sickness. The
result is that the ox sickens, takes the dis
ease in a mild form, which causes its tail to
drop off, as a rule about a foot from the
root, and becomes proof against future at
tacks. It seems cruel to rob the animal of
his tail, especially in a country where tliere
are so many flies, but it is better to sacrifice
the tail and keep the ox than to lose both
tail and ox, for a tail without an ox is not
much good except to dust with. Still it
does look odd to trek along behind twenty
stumps, where there ought to be tails. It
seeins as though nature had made a trifling
mistake, and stuck the stern ornaments of a
lot of prize bulldogs on to the rumps of the
oxen.
Next came the question of provisioning
and medicines, one which required the most
careful consideration, for what one had to
do was to avoid lumbering the wagon up,
and yet take everything absolutely neces
sary. Fortunately, it turned out that Good
was a bit of doctor, having at some period
in his previous career managed to pass
through a course of medical and surgical in
structions, which he had more or less kept
up. He was not, of course, qunlilied, but lie
knew more about it than many a man who
could write M. D. after his name, as we
found out afterward, and he had a splendid
traveling medicine chesf and a set of instru
ments. Whilst we were at Durban he cut
off a Kafirs big toe in a way which it was a
pleasure to see. But he was quite flabber
gasted when the Kiiir, who had satstoldily
watching the operation, asked him to put on
another, saying that a "whits; one" would
do at a pinch.
There remained, when these questions
were satisfactorily settled, two further im
portant points for consideration, namely,
that of arms and that of sen-ant. As to the
arms I cannot do better than put down a
list of those we finally decided on from
among the ample store that Sir Henry had
brought with him from England, and Uiomj
which 1 had. I copy it from my jiocket
book, where I made the entry at the time.
"Three heavy breechloading double-eight
elephant guns, weighing about fifteen pounds
each, with a heavy charge of eleven drams
of black powder." Two iiounds of these
were by a well-known London firm, most
excellent makers, but I do not know by
whom mine, which was not so highly fin
ished, was made. 1 had used it on several
trips, and shot a good many elephants with
it, and it always pro vet 1 a most superior
weapon, thoroughly to be relied on.
"Three double five-hundred expresses,
constructed to carry a charge of six drams,"
sweet weapons, and admirable for medium
sized game, such as eland and sable ante
lope, or for men, especially in an open coun
try and with the semi-hollow bullet
"One double No. 12 central-tire Keeper's
shot-gun, full choke both barrels." Tbi?
gun proved of the greatest service to us af
terward in shooting game for the pot
'Three Winchester repeating rifles (not
carbines), spare guns.
"Three single-action Colt's revolvers with
the heavier pattern of cartridge,"
This was our total armament, and the
-Jini 9J3i Baapu5Ja aqj jsqj cm Jdqifro pu
sutin atuBS aqj ;o gT?ja ipsa jo suod
" ' . - I ' . ' . ;
z....:., .i itiy ;:ajior: i:-.t .
no iixilogy for detailing it at length, for
evel v experienced hunt, r Will know how
vital a prop' r Mipply of guns ami ammuni
tion Is to the iceess ol II a ei lition.
Now, iih to tl. men who . r t go with
U. Alter Uil'eii n-llM.tt oil we tlecele,
t it lueil 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 m i' s!l lli'l e I, in l.-'l t
iMiie-ly. a ilr.ver. a leader, and three
live.
S4TV-
ants.
T.ie driver nii'l lender I g' t without much
t tlleilt' , wo '. i im, li; t les,H etiely
G i and Tom. i ul the s. i ant- ie a iieue
li tieiilt m itter. It tt',h le-ee- it . Ill it they
should lie thorotiL'lilv li nsl i orili v and bravo
I men. ax iii liii-.oie.4 nf tli. tnii our lives
miht depend, upon tlu-u eouduet. At last I
secured I wo, one a lloiieiitoi rilled Venl
vogel (wind bud), mid one a little Zulu
named Khiva, who had the merit ol speak
ing I'.iigiish perfectly. WnlvoLiel I
known be I ore; he was one ol Ihe mod
feet "sMMiers" (game traeUeis) ever
to do with, and tough as whipcord,
never seemed to tire. But he had one
ing so common with his race, ill ink.
had
pel
I. id
He
him within reach of a Iwiitle of giog and you
could not trust him. But as we were going
beyond the region of grog-shops this little
weakness of his did not so much matter.
Having got these two men, I looked in
vain for a third to suit my put pose, so we
determined to start without one, trusting to
luck to lind a suitable man on our way up
country. But on the evening before the day
we hail fixed lor our departure the Zulu
Khiva informed inn that a man was waiting
t see me. Accordingly, when we hud done
dinner, for we were at table at the time, 1
told him to bring him in. Presently a very
tall, handsome-looking ' man, somewhere
altout thirty years of age, and very light
colored for a Zulu, entered, and. Idling his
knob-stick by way of salute, squatted him
self down in the corner on his haunches,
and sat silent. J did not take any notice of
him lor awhile, for it is a great mistake to
do so. If you rush into conversation at
once a Zulu is apt to think you a person of
little dignity or consideration. I observed,
however, that he was a "Keshla" (ringed
man), that is, that he wore on his head the
black ring, made of a species of gum jmiIKIi
ed with fat and worked in with the hair,
usually assumed In Zulus on attaining a
certain age or dignity. Also it struck me
that his face was familiar to me.
"Well," I said at last, ' what is your
name?"
"Uinbopa," answered the man In a slow,
deep voice.
"I have seen your face before."
"Yes; the Inkoosi" (chief) "saw my lace
at the place of the Little Hand" (Isaudhl
wana) "the day before the battle."
Then I reinemfx'red. I had leen one of
Lord Chelmsford's guides in that unlucky
Zulu war, and had had the good fortune to
leave the camp in charge of some wagons
the day before the battle. While 1 had beiui
waiting for the cattle to lx insjianned I had
fallen into conversation with tins man, who
held some small command amomr the native
auxiliaries, and he had expressed to mo
llis doubts of the safety of the camp. At
the time 1 told him to hold his tongue, and
leave such matters to wiser heads; but after
ward 1 thought of his woios.
"I remember," 1 said; "what is it you
want!"
"It is this, 'Macuinazahii' (that is my Ka
fir name, and means the man who gets up in
the middle of the night, or, in vulgar En
glish, he who keeps his eyes open). 1 hear
that you go on a great expedition far into
the north with the white chiefs from over
the water. Is it a true word?"
"It is."
"I hear that you even go to Lukang;
Elver, a moon's journey lieyoud the Manic
country. Is this so also, 'M.iciiniazahn'?''
"Why do you ask whither we go? What
is it to thee?"' I answered, suspiciously, for
the objects of our journey had been kept a
dead secret
"It is this, O white men! that if indeed
you travel so far 1 would travel with you."
'I here was a certain assumption of dignity
in the man's mode of speech, and especially
in his use of the words "O white men !" in
stead of " O lnkosis'' (chiefs), which struck,
me.
"You forget yourself a littie," I said.
"Your words come on' unawares. That is
not the way to speak. What is your name,
and where is your kraal? Tell us, that we
may know with whom we have to deal."
"My name is Uinbopa, I am of the Zulu
people, yel not of them. The house of iy
tribe is in the far north; it was left behind
when the Zulus came down here a thousand,
' ears ago,' long before Chaka reigned in
Zululand. I have no kraal. 1 have wan
dered for many j-ears. I came from th
north as a child to Zululand. I was Cety
wayo's man in the N'komabakosi Regiment.
I ran away from Zululand and came to Na
tal because I wanted to see the white man's
ways. Then I served against Cetywayo in
the war. Since then 1 have been working
in Natal. Now 1 am tired, and would go
north again. Here is not my place. I want
no money, but I am a brave man, and am
worth my place and meat. I have spoken."
I was rather puzzled at this man and his
way of speech. It was evident to me from
his manner that he was in the main telling
the truth, but he was somehow different
from the onlinarv run of Zulus, and 1 rather
mistrusted his offer to come without pay.
Being in a difficulty. I translated his words
to Sir Henry and Good, and asked them
their opinion. Sir Hriry told me to ask
him to stand up. I'mbopa did so, at the
same tims slipping ofT the long military
great coat he wore, and revealing himself
naked except for the moaeha round his cen
ter and a necklace of lions' claws. He cer
tain 1 y was a magniiicent-looking man, I
never saw a liner native. Standing about
six feet three hih, tie was broud in propor
tion, and very shapely. In that light, too,'
his skin looked scarcely more than dark, ex
cept here and there where deep black scan
marked old as-egai wounds. Sir Henry
walked up to him and looked into his proud
handsome face.
"They make a good pair, don't they?"
said Good; "one as big as the other."
"I like your looks, Mr. Vmltojta, and I iciJt-Uti-.e
you a my servant.''
