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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.''