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I1Y if. in i t: ft ii w.(;ai:i.
ll) ffl lMt W.H tin V;et de-eft. Till" Sp'l
aiM'actti ti) bv the out'io-t if t!ic ferliit
foniitrs, an I it wmild In dillicitit t') s:iy to
w lilt m:i 1 1 1 1 .( I eaust'S such ail a dilpt eh;in.'f
hi the cliur irter of the mii i was iiii. ISut sc
it W S. Jil-t l),'I)v our lie:i!iipilieiit tlu'.ved
a little stiv;iiu, on the lintlnT si !' of wiii-ll
was a sloii . s!' the sinic ihnvn wliieli I
li:i 1 twenty ye n -, be!uie .. ! p ior ,"si: t n'
creeiin; bar,; allcr bis attempt to reach So
lomon's M.nes, :sn I l. :' i: ii t III it Mop.' b -u'in
the waterless desert covered Willi a species
ol' k.iMo .slirnli. It w a-, eveiiimr lien we
pitched our camp, and the icivut liery ball of
the sun was sinUin ; inl the desei t. sendinu
glorious rays of many-colored liht II i 1 1 c all
over the) vast expanse. Leavimc ood to
siiperintend the arranzeiii'-nt of our little
camp, I took Sir Henry with me, and wt
walked to tin; top of tlm s!op; ojijiositt am'
Hazed out across the desert. The air was very
clear, and far, faraway I could distinguish
j the taint blue outlines, here and then! capped
with white, of the jjrat Siiliman Uerir.
4 There," 1 said, there is the wall of Solo
mon's Mines, but(l;d knows if we shall ever
climb it"
"My brother s.ouM he there, and if he is,
I shall reach him som.-liow,'' said Sir Henry,
in that tone of quiet confidence which
marked the man.
"1 hope so," 1 answered, and turned to no
back to the camp, when 1 . w that we were
not alone. Ilelmid us, also gazinir. earnestly
toward the far-oH mountains, stood the great
Zulu Umhopa.
The Zulu spoke when he saw that I had
observed him, but addressed himself to Sir
Henry, to whom he had attached himself.
"It is to that land that you would journey,
Incubu'."' (Elephant Sir Henrys Zulu
name), he said, pointing toward the moun
tains with his broad assegai.
1 asked him sharply what he meant by ad
dressing his master in that familiar way. It
is very well for natives to have a name for
one unions themselves, but it is not decent
that they should call one by their heathen
ish appellations to one's face. The man
laughed a quiet little lauh which riled nn.
"How do you know that 1 am not tho
equal of the lnkosi 1 serve1."' he said. "He
is of a royal house, no doubt; one can see it
in his si.e and in his eye; no perhaps am I.
At least 1 am as great a man. IV; my mouth,
oil, .Macnmazahii, and say my words to the
liikoos liieuhu, inv master, for 1 would
speak to him and to you."
1 was aiiu.'1'j- ilh the man, for I am not
accustomed to be talked to in that way by
Kaiirs, hut somehow' he. impressed me, and
besid.'.s I was curious to know what Ik; had
to say, so I translated, expressing my opin
ion at the same time that he was an impu
dent fellow, an I that his swagger Was out
rageous. "Yes. Umhopa," answered Sir Henry,
"1 would journey there."
"The desert is wide and there is no water,
the mountains are high and covered with
snow, and man cannot say what is beyond
them behind the place where tiie sun sets;
how shall you come thither, Incubu, and
wherefore do you go?"
1 translated again.
"Tell him," answered Sir Henry, "that I
go because 1 believe that a man of my blood,
my brother, has gone there before inc. and 1
-o to seek him."
"That Is so. hvuljii; a man 1 m -t on the
road told me that a white ma'i went out. into
the d; sert I wo years ago toward t'.o.' moun
tains with :i". S'i'.;iut, a hunter. Tliey
uevcr camu buck."
"How do you know it was my brother?"
asked Sir Henry.
"2s'ay, I know not. But the man, when I
asked what the white man was like, said"
that he had your eyes and a black beard. He
said, too, that the name of the hunter with
him was Jim, that he was a Uechuana hunt
er and wore clothes."
"There is no doubt about it," said I, "J
knew Jim well."
Sir Henry nodded. "I was sure of it," he
said. "If (i;-orge set his mind upon a thing,
he generally did it. It was always so from
his boyhood. If he meant to cross the Siili
man Uerg ho has crossed it, unless some ac
cident has overtaken him, and we must look
for him on the other side."
Umbopa understood English, though he
j rarely spoke it.
i "It is a far journey, Incubu.' he put in,
i and I translated his remark,
j ''Yes.'" answered S;r Henry, "it is far.
j Dut there is no journey upon this earth that
' a man may not malie if he sets his heart te
i it. There is nothing, Unihop i, that he can
I not do. there are no mountains he may not
i eiiml, there an? no des'Tts he cannot cross.
j save a mountain and a desert of which you
are spared tiie knowledge, if love leads him
and he holds his life in his hand, count ;i:g it
as nothing, ready to keep or to lose it as
Providence may order."'
1 translated.
iiv::t woids, my father,"
Zulu (I al ways called him a
li - was not really i:. -i, ';
words lit to till the moi.th of
are right, inv father Incubu.
answered the
Zulu, though
:reat swelling
a man. Y'ou
Listen! what
is life? It is a leather, it is
the seed ol
grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes
multiplying itself and dying in the act,
sometimes carried away into the heavens.
Hut if the seed be good and heavy it may
h reliance travel a little way on the road it
viils. It is well to try and journey one's
road and to fight with the air. Man must
die. At the worst he can but die sooner. I
will tro with you across the desert and ovei
the mountains, unless perchance I fall to tht
ground on tiie way. my father."
He paused awhile, and then went on with
one of those strange bursts of rhetorical eio-
quence which Zulus sometimes indulge in,
and which to my mind, full as they are of
vam repetitions, show that the race is by no
ans void of a sort of intellectual power,
"What is life? Tell me, oh! white men,
who are wise, who knows the secret of the
world that lies above and around the stars;
who are wise, who knows the secret of the
u t j. . ye and arcund the stars;
w ho flash their words from afar without a
: n i
voice ; tell me, white men, the secret or our
life whither it goes and whence it comes!
"Ye cannot answer; ye know not Listen,
I will answer. Out of the dark we came, in-
" l" go. x,ikc a MUiui-u.irii unu
at nnrht we rly out of the owhere; fora
moment our wines are seen in the light of
the fire, and. lol we are eoue again into the
Nowhere. Life is nothing. Life is all. It
is as the glow-worm that shines in the night
time and is black in the morning; it is as the
white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is
as the little shadow that runs across the
grass and loses itself at sunset I have
spoken."
"You are a strange man." said Sir Henry.
Umbopa laughed. "It seems to me that
we are much alike. Incubu. Perhaps 1 seek
a brother over the mountains.'
I looked at
him suspiciously,
asked; "what do
tain?"
'What do you mean?" 1
you know of the moun-
"A little; a very little. There is a strange
land there, a land of witchcraft and beauti
ful thiiiirs: a land of brave ieonle. and of
irve ana Bircatiis, iirr"WmTe mountain.
rliirjfVniil of rtjerf iClfiito rrJipT Jirf id o
U, Hull wjtfl m thft! MHfF r
grows dark. J. hose who nvo to ncc, will
1 A ifain I looked at him doubtfully. The
man knew t.-6 mien. r , ,
"Ye need led Tear me, M.iciim ;z.hll." he
. .said, interpreting nrv ''liMlt.'-'"I Mi 1h. holes
lor ve to I ill in. I m iU no plots. If fT
we cross tfinse moiinl. tins Iteiiind the sun. 1
will tell w,i ,! I know, lid ll-.ithsiis utti
them, lie w i-e .1:1 I turn o.ii'k. (in and hum
clephaii;. I have spoken."
Ail I with .nt another wor I he lifted his
SmmI' in sa illation, an I tui u -d I" v u d I he
c . in: i. where -.'e.iilv :'.'! r.i.o'l v.-- I niinl
bin: 1 1 i : i g a .11:1 like any ' i l K 'lir.
"Th::t is an odd man,1' S i Henry.
1 "Yes." answered 1 "t ill !.y half. I
don't like hi- littie w,ns. lie l-.li nvs so.ne
thine and won't spit it out. H it I suppose
j it is no ii. - qua; re in ; with him. We aie in
1 lul' ;i rilll'ilh il.j. a. el a III . Mel urn i Za.ll
' u-,,li't liilli'li f 1 : U'.-i-elU'i. , ,i ii u -i i' ..r .i,,-
other."
is'cxt day we m. .'.: our urraiigemeiitd for
starting. Of course It was impossible to
drag our heavy elephant l ilies and other kit
with us across the desert, so dismissing oiii
bearers we made an arrangement witti an
old native who had a kraal close bv to take
care of them until we returned. It went to
my heart to leave such things as those sweet
tools to the tender mercies of an old thief of
a savage whose greedy eyes 1 could see
gloating over them. IJut 1 took some pre
cautions. First of all I loaded all the rifles, ami in
formed him that if tie touched them they
would go off. He instantly tried the experi
ment with my eight-bore, and it did go off,
and blew a bole right through one of hiir
oxen, which were then being driven up t:
the kraal, to say nothing of knocking him
head over heels with the recoil. He got nr.
considerably startled, and not at all pleased
at the loss of an ox, which he had the impu
dence to ask me to pay for, and nothing
would induce him to touch them again.
"Put the live devils up there in the thatch, '
he said, "out of the way, or they will kill u.
all." Then 1 told him that if, when we cam
back, one of those things was missing I
would kill him and all his people by witch
craft; and if we died and he tried to steal
the things 1 would come and haunt him ami
turn his cattle mad and his milk sour till liff
was a weariness, and make the devils in thf
guns come out ami talk to him in a way h
would not like, and generally give him a
good idea of judgment to come. After that
he swore he would look al ter them as though
the' were his father's spirit. He was a ver
superstitious old Kahr and a great villain.
Having thus disposed of our supei tluom
gear we arranged the kit we live Sir Henry,
Good, mysolf, Umbopa, and the Hottentot
Veutvogel were to take with us on o:n
journey. It was small enough, but do wliai
we would we could not get it dow n uudei
about forty pounds a man. This i.i w hat ii
consisted of:
The three express rifles and two hundred
rounds of ammunition.
The two Winchester repeating rifles (fol
Umbopa and Veutvogel), with two huiiiwcc
rounds of cartridge.
Three "Colt" revolvers and sixty round ol
cartridge.
Five Cochrane's water-bottles, each hold
ing four pints.
Five blankets.
Twenty-live pounds' weight of biltong
(sun-dried game flesh).
Ten pounds' weight of best mixed bead?
for gifts.
A selection of medicine, including an
ounce of quinine, and one or two small sur
gical instruments.
Our knives, a few sundries, such as a com
pass, matches, a pocket filter, tobacco, a
trowel, a bottle of brandy, and the clothes
we stood in.
This was our total equipment, a small one
indeed for such a venture, but we dared not
attempt to carry any uiore. As it was, that
load was a heavy one per man to travel
across the burning desert with, for in such
places every additional ounce tells upon one.
IJut try as we would we could not see our
way to reducing it. There was nothing but
what was absolutely necessary.
With great ditliculty, and by the promise
of a present of a good hunting-knife each, 1
succeeded in jK-rsuading three wretched
natives from the village to come with us for
the lirst stage, twenty miles, and to carry
each a lanre gourd holding a gallon of wa
ter. My object was to enable us to reiill our
water-bottles after the first night's march,
for we determined to start in the cool of
the night. I gave out to the natives tiiat we
were going to shoot ostriches, with which
the desert abounded. They jaMiered and
shrugged their shoulders, and said we
were, mad and should perish of ih;r-t, which
1 must say s-'emed very probable; but being
desirous of obtaining the knives, which were
almost unknown treasures up t.KTe, they
consented to come, having" probably rellect
ed that, after all. our subsequent extinction
would be no r.iT.iir of theirs.
Ail next, day we rested and si ept. and at
sunset est a heaity meal of ii-sii beef
washed down with tea, the ins. a Good
sadly remarked, we were likeiy to drink for
many a long day. Then, having madi our
lln.il preparations, we l.iy down and wait 1
for the moon to rise. At last about nine
o'clock up s'je came in ail her chastened
glory, flooding the wild country with silver
light, an 1 throwing a weird sheen on thn
vast expanse of rolling desert be fora us,
which looked ?is solemn aud 0,'tiet and as
alien to a man as the star-studded firmament
above. We r-e up and in a lew minutes
were ready, and yet we hesitated a little as
human nature is prom; to hesitate on the
threshold or an irrevocable step. We three
white men stood there by ourselves. Umbo
pa, assegai in hand and the r:lle across hi.
shoulders. a few paces ahead of us, looked
out fixedly across the desert; the three hired
natives, with the gourds of water, and Veut
vogel, were gathered in a little knot behind.
"Jentiemen," said Sir Henry, presently,
in his low. deep voice, "we are going or
about as strange a journey as men can make
in this world. It is very doubtful if we car
succeed in it Hut we are tiiree men who
will stand together for good or for evil to
the last Ami now before we start let us foi
a moment pray to the Power who shape?
the destinies of men, and who ages since haf
marked out our paths, that it may pleast
Him to direct our steps in accordance with
His wilL"
Taking off his hat he, for the space of a
minute or so, covered his face w ith his hands,
and Good and 1 did likewise.
1 do not say that 1 am a tirst-rate prayin?
man, few hunters are, and as for Sir Henr
I never heard him speak like that before,
and only once since, though deep down d
his heart I believe he is very religious.
Good, too, is pious, though very apt to swear
Anyhow 1 do not think I ever, excepting or
one single occasion, put in a better prayer in
my life thau 1 did during that minute, anc
somehow I felt the happier for it Our fut
lire was so completely unknown, and
think the unknown and tiie awful always
"--.- - 5Uj nearer to his Miker.
" Afi id n i fit " ald TTTfTT el rryT"trc If."
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', W Haw'nothfnf Ui piMWbr tc-pt tlw'l
dlst Hlfc tmHHliint ill id ttklJ.MiX ilj. iU4aU,.lj
hint. "wIiT hT cons'. reiiiri fliariT n.li dr .wr
b a li inr and iiaff ikitinni-Jit unn im , ,
i'rsnriiii'iil of linen tlirce ccnlui us a.;n, va.
not . vVr, kilNfichiiy Sdl of a thing U
wort on. Still, such a ; it was, our sole !n
of success (tepeiidi d on It. It we tailed lo
ll 1 1 1 1 1 1 li;il moI o! bad Water W'li'cii tin ole
doll I;., il i.ed a-, be. ug -.Ml del III the lili.lt
o( lln- desert, ii'i nil s.l tudes Ineu nii
I 1 1 1 1 1 1 T t J 1 1 , and as lir limn the III' nil
tain-, we im; in ail pri (In In I it v -!i-!i Ho-
crab' v ol 1 i.r-l. A n l t i m iiiiad l.ic chance-
nl liii i a i' in i.i i : il - a . I i I . in'
Laloo mtiiIi lied a a.i'i t ililin:!' . HI ll
Kvell .x:iii'i-ar; li Sihe lra l ad in il - I It
r.ght, w hat wa i I .n'l to t . 1 1 1 1 1. il- li.uiuii
been ".elier.lt mils a. i 'll ieil up bv t lie sun. ol
tr.unpi led In by gam.', or tided u illi the
dial I uig s.iiui?
On we damped silently as shades tlnougl'
the ui ;lit and in the beav sand. '1 he Uanxi
bushes caught our shins and letaidi d us, and
the sand got into our veldt -eliomis and
Good's shooting lioots, so that every few
miles we had to stop and enily them, bill
still the mtlit was fairly cool, though tliH
atmosphere was thick and heavy, giving a
sort ol creamy feci to the air, and we mads
lair progress. It was very slid and lonely
there in the desert, oppressively so indeed.
Good felt this and at once bewail to whistle,
the "Girl 1 left behind me," but the noU-N
sounded lugubrious in that vast pi. ice, and
he gave it up. Shortly afterward a little In
cident occiii red which, though It made us
jump nt the time, cave rise ton lauh. Good,
as the holder f the compass, which, being a
sailor, of course he thoroughly midcr-tood,
was leadinir, and wi were toiling along in
single tile behind him, when suddenly we
heard tho sound of an exel.iinat am, and ho
vanished. Next second there arose all around
us a most extraordinary hubbub, snorts,
groans, wild sounds of rushing feet. In tho
faint light too we could descry dim gallo
iug forms half hidden by wreaths ot sand.
The natives threw dow n their loads and pro
pared to bolt, cast themselves on the
ground and howled out that it was the devil.
As for Sir Henry and myself we stood
amazed ; nor was our ama.ciiient lessened
when we perceived the form of GoihI career
ing off in the direction of the mountains, ap
parently mounted on the lack of a horse and
halloaing like mad. In another second he
threw up his arms, and we he. ml bun
come to the earth with a thud. Then 1 saw
what had happened; we had stumbled light
on to a heiil of sleeping ijuag'.i, on to the
back of one of which Good h id a lu illy (al
ien, and th'' brute Ii id natura I y enough t?ot
ii I aud made olf wit h him. Sm-ang out to
the other-thai i! was.i'l l l it I I ill toward
Good, much ai:.;id lest he .-lioiilil be hurt,
but to my irrea! reiiel l.iund him silling in
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through
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avs of priniiosi
changed pres'-n;
which the dawn
V to goideli I
iiided cut ;:er
The stars grew pale and paler still, till at
last they vanished ; the golden luoo.i waxed
wan, and her mountain ri-hrcs stood out
clear airainst the sir-kly face like the bone.!
on the face of a dyimr man; then cimiio sjiear
upon spear of glorious Ji;!it lla-hing fal
away across the boundless wilderness, pierc
ing and tiring the veils of mist, till tin; des
ert was draped in a tremulous gold. mi glow,
and it was day.
Still we did not halt, though by this timf
we should have been glad enough to do so,
for we knew that when once the sun was
fully up it would bu almost impossible for
us to travel in it. At length, anout six
o'clock, we spied a little pile of locks rising
out of the plain, and to this wedi ig ed our
selves. As luck would have it, hi a w lounc
an overhanging slab of rock carpeted lc
iieatli with smooth sand, which ailoiaed r
most grateful shelter from tho beat. U nder
heath this we crept, and having drank somf
water each and eaten a bit ol bill ng, w
lay down and were soon sound asleep.
it was three o'clock in the afteni'xm be
fore we woke, to liud our three U-arcrs pre
paring h return. They had already hac1
enough of the desert, and no number ol
knives would have tempted them to come s
step further. So we had a hearty drink. an:
having emptied our water bottles, idled
them up again from the gourd- they had
brought with them, and then watched their
depart on their twenty miles' tramp home.
At half-past four wf aNo started on. I
was lonely and desolate work, tor with tin
exception of a few ostriches there was not a
single living creature to be .-ecu on all lh
vast evnaii-c oi -; leiy plain. It was evident
ly too drv for gain--, and with the x -e;,tjor
of a deadly-looking, cobra or two we saw nc
reptiles. One in-ect, howevei, was abun
i.';i!it, and tii il was the com1
11 y. Tin-re they itik-, "not as
,oa
)iise
i lies.
but in battalions," as I tiuni: t:;f u i IK
ment say-some where, lie is an xuaordi
nary animal i- the huii-e-tl G. win-re you
Will JOU liiid hi:n, and SO it liili-t alvvay?
have Ix-en. I have s.;.-n him iia io-eil in
ainijer, which mu.st, 1 was toel. have t-r
half a million years old, looking exactly like
his descendants of to-iny. and 1 have little
doubt but that when the la-l man lies h ing
on the earth he will be bu.,hg round it
that evt-nt should happi u V i.ecur in sum
mer watching for an opportunity to settlu
on his nose.
At sunset we halted, waiting for the moon
to rise. At ten she came up bi a id ii nlly and
serene as ever, and with one halt about two
o'clock in the morning, we trudged wearily
on tiir augh the night, till at la-.t the welcome
sun put a period to our labors. We drank a
little and tlung ourselves down, thoroughly
tired out on the sand, and we were soon all
asleep. There was no need to set a watch,
for we had nothing to fear from anybody or
anything in that vast untenanted plain. Our
only enemies were heat thirst, and Hies, but
far rattier would I have faced any danger
from man or beast than that awful trinity.
This time we were not so Incky as to find a
sheltering rock to guard us from the glare of
the sun, with the result that about seven
o'clock we woke up experiencing the exact
sensations one would attribute to a beefsteak
on a gridiron. We were literally being
baked through and through. The burning
sun seemed to be sucking our very blood out
of us. We sat up and gasped.
"Phew," said 1, grabbing at the halo of
flies, which buzzed cheerfully round my
head. The heat did not affect them.
"My word!" said Sir Henry.
"It is hot!" said Good.
It was hot indeed, and there was not a bit
of shelter to be had. Look where we would
there was no rock or tree, nothing but an
unending glare, rendered dazzling by the
hot air which dancnl over the hot surface of
the desert as it does over a red hot stove.
"What is to be done?-' asked Sir Henry 1
"we can't stand this for lonir."