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We looked at each other blankly.
"I have it," said Good, "we must dig a
hole and set In it and cover ourselves with
karoo bushes."
It did not seem a very promising sugges
tion, but at least it was better than nothing,
m we set to work, and with tiie trowel we
had brought with us timi our hands succeed
ed in about an hour in delving out a patch of
ground about ten frt-t long by twelve wide
to the depth of two fee L Then we cut a
Quantity of low tcrub with .our huntiug-
knlves, and creeping into the mne pulled I
over us all, with the exception of Ventvogel
on whom, being a Hottentot, the sua had nc
particular effect. This gave us some slight
shelter from the burning rays of the sun, but
the heat lu that amateur grave can be better
Imagined than described. The Black Hole
of Calcutta must have been a fool to it; in
deed, to this moment 1 do not know how we
lived through the day. . There we lay pant
ing, and every now and then moistening
our lips from our scanty supply of water.
Had we followed our inclinations we should
have finished all we bad off in the first twe
hours, but we had to exereise the most rigid
care, for If our water failed as we knew
that we must quickly perish miserably.
But everything has an end. If only you
live long enough to see ft, and somenow that
miserable day wore on toward evening.
About three o'clock in the afternoon we de
termined that we could stand it no longer.
It would be better to die walking than to bt
slowly killed by heat and thlrrt In thai
dreadful hole. So taking each of us a little
drink from our faat-dloilnisliiiig supply ol
water, now heated to about the same tern
pe rat u re as a man's blood, we staggered on
We ttaggered on.
We had now covered some titty miles of
desert. If my reader will refer to the rouge
copy and translation of old Da Silvestra's
map, he will see that the desert is marked
as being forty leagues across, and the "pac
bad water" is set down aa . being about the
middle of it Now forty leagues is one bun
dred and twenty miles, consequently we
ought at the most to be within twelve or fif
teen miles of the water if any should exist.
Through the afternoon we crept slowly
and painfully along, scarcely doing more
than a mile and a half an hour. At sunset
we again rested, waiting for the moon, and
after drinking a little managed to get some
sleep.
lietore we lay down umnopa pointea out
to us a slight and indistinct hillock on the
flat surface of the desert about eight miles
away. At the distance it looked like an ant
hill, and as 1 was dropping off to sleep 1 fell
to wondering what it could be.
With the moon we started on ngiin, feel
ing dreadfully exhausted, and suffering tor
tures from thirst and prickly heat Nobody
who has not felt it can know what we went
through. We no longer walked, we stag
gered, now and then again falling from ex
haustiou, and being obliged to call a halt
every hour or so. We had scarcely energy
left in us to speak. Up to now Good had
chatted and joked, for he was a merry fel
low; but now he had not a joke left in him.
At last about two o'clock, utterly worn
out in body and mind, we came to the foot
of this nueer hill, or sand koppie. which did
at first sight resemble a gigantic ant-heap
about a hundred feet high, and covering at
the base nearly a morgen (two acres) of
ground.
Here we halted, and driven by our des
perate thirst sucked down our last drops of
water. We had but half a pint a head, and
we could have drank a gallon.
Then we lay down. J ust as I was drop
ping off to sleep I heard Umbopa remark U
himself in Zulu:
"If we cannot lin J water we shall all be
dead before the moon rises to-morrow.
I shuddered, hot as it was. The near pros
pect of such an awful death is not pleasant
but even tho thought of it could not keep me
from sleeping.
CHAPTER VI.
WAT E14 ! WATEI! !
In two hours' time, about four o'clock, 1
woke up. As soon as the first heavy demand
of bodily fatigue had been satisfied, the tor
turing thirst from which I was suffering as
serted itself. 1 could sleep no more. I had
been dreaming that 1 was bathing in a run
ning stream, with green banks and trees up
on them, and I awoke to find myself in that
arid wilderness, and to remember that a;
Umbopa had said, if we did not find watei
that day we must certainly perish miserably.
No human creature could live long without
water in that heat I sat up and rubbed my
grimy face with my dry and horny hands.
My lips and eyelids were stuck together,
and it was only after rubbing and with an
effort that I was able to open them. It wa
not far off the dawn, but there was none of
the bright feel of dawn in the air, which
was thick with a hot murkiness I cannot de
scribe. The others were still sleeping.
Presently it began to grow light enough te
read, so 1 drew out a little pocket copy of the
"Ingoldsby Legends" I bad brought with
me, and read the "Jackdaw of Kheims."
When I got to where
"A nice little boy held a golden ewer.
Embossed, and filled with water as pure
Aa any that flows between Rbeimi and Na
mur," I literally smacked my lips, or rather tried
to smack them. The mere thought of that
pure water made me mad.
As soon as we were all well awake we fell
to discussing the situation, which was seri
ous enough. Not a drop of water was left
We turned the water-bottles upside down,
and licked the tops, but it was a failure; they
were as dry as bone. Good, who had charge
of the bottle of brandy, got it out and looked
at it longingly; but Sir Henry promptly
took it away from him, for to drink raw spirit
would only have been to precipitate the end.
"If we do not find water we shall die." he
sib
ininn
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"lf we can trust to the old don' map there
should be som about," ltHnll; but nobody
seemed to derive much satisfaction from th5
remark. It was so evident Hint no great
rami coui.i ue put in me map. It was now
gradually growing light and as we sat blank
ly staring at each other, 1 observed the Hot
tentot Ventvogel rise and begin to wal
about with his eyes on the ground. Pres
ently he stopped short, and uttering a gut
tural exclamation, pointed to the earth.
" h it Is it?" we exclaimed; and simulta
neousiy rose ana went to wnere lie wan
standing pointing at the ground.
well," said I, "it Is pretty fresh spring
bok spoor; what of it?"
springbucks do not go far from water,
he answered in Dutch.
"No," I answered, "I forgot; and thank
God for It"
This little discovery put new life Into us
It is wonderful how, when one Is in a des
perate position, one catches at the slightest
hope, and feels almost happy In It. On
dark night a single star is better than noth
ing.
Meanwhile Ventvogel was lifting his snub
nose, and sniffing the hot air for all th
world like an old Impala ram who scents
danger. Presently he spoke again.
"1 smell water," he said.
Then we felt quite jubilant for we knew
what a wonderful instinct these wild-bred
men possess.
J ust at that moment the sun came up glo
riously, and revealed so grand a sight to our
astonished eye that for a moment or two we
even forgot our thirst
For there, not more than forty or fifty
miles from us, glittering like silver In the
early rays of the morning sun, were Sheba's
breasts; and stretching away for hundreds
of miles on each side of them was the great
Snliman Berg. Now that 1. sitting here, at
tempt to describe the extraordinary grandeur
and beauty of that sight language seems to
fail me. I am impotent even before its
memory. There straight before us, were
two enormous mountains, the like of which
are not I believe, to be seen in Africa, If,
indeed, there are any other such in the
world, measuring each at least fifteen thou
and feet in height standing not more than
a dozen miles apart connected by a precipi
tous cliff of rock, and towering up in awful
white solemnity straight into the sky. These
mountains standing thus, like the pillars of
a gigantic gateway, are shaped exactly like
a woman's breasts. Tiieir bases swelled
gently up from the plain, looking, at that
distance, perfectly round and smooth ; and
on the top of each was a vast round hillock
covered with snow, exactly corresponding to
the nipple on the female breast The stretch
of cliff which connected them appeared to be
some thousand feet in height and perfectly
precipitous, and on each side of them, as far
as the eye could reach, extended similar
lines of cliff, broken only here and there by
flat table-topped mountains, something like
the world-famed one at Cape Town ; a for
mation, by the way, very common in Africa.
To describe the grandeur of the whole
lew is bevond my powers. There was
something so inexpressibly solemn and over
powering about those huge volcanoes that
it fairly took our breath away. For awhile
the morning lights played upon the suow
and the brown and swelling masses beneath,
and then, as though to veil the majestic
sight from our curious eyes, strange mists
and clouds gathered and increased around
them, till presently we could only trace their
pure and gigantic outline swelling ghost-like
through the fleecy envelope. Indeed, as we
afterward discovered, they were normally
wrapped in this curious gauzy mist which
doubtless accounted for one not having
made them out more clearly before.
Scarcely had the mountains vanished into
cloud-clad privacy before our thirst literally
a burning question reasserted itself.
It was all very well for Ventvogel to say
he smelled water, but look which way we
would we could see no signs of it So far as
the eye could reach there was nothing but
arid sweltering sand and karoo scrub. We
walked round the hillock and gazed about
anxiously on the other side but it was the
same story, not a drop of water was to be
seen: there was no indication of a pan, a
pool, or a spring.
"You are a fool," I said, angrily, to Vent
vogel; "there is no water."
But still he lifted his ugly snub nose and
sniffed.
"1 smell it Baas" (master), he answered;
"it is somewhere in the air."
"Yes," I said, "no doubt It is in the
clouds, and about two months hence it will
fall and wash our bones."
Sir Henry Btroked his yellow beard
thoughtfully. "Perhaps it is on the top of
the hill," he suggested.
"Hot" said Good; "whoever heard of wa
ter being found on the top of a hill !"
"Let us go and look," I put in, and hope
lessly enough we scrambled up the sandy
sides of the hillock, Umbopa leading. Pre
sently he stopped as though he was petrified.
Presently he sUjjrped a OuyuQh jetrifled.
"Nanzia manzie!" (here is water), he
cried with a loud voice.
We rushed up to him, and there, sure
enough, in a deep cup or indention on the
very top of the sand koppie. was an un
doubted pool of water. How it came to be
in such a strange place we did not stop to
inquire, nor did we hesitate at its black and
uninviting appearance. It was water, or a
good imitation of it and that was enough for
us. We gave a bound and a rush, and in an
other second were ail down on our stomachs
sucking up the inviting fluid as though it
were nectar fit for the gods. Heavens, how
we did drink! Then when we had done
drinking we tore off our clothes and sat down
in it absorbing the moisture through our
parched skins. You my reader, who have
only to turn on a couple of taps and summon
hot" and "cold" from an unseen vasty
boiler, can have little idea of the luxury of
that muddy wallow in brackish tepid water.
After awhile we rose from it refreshed in
deed, and tell to on our "biltong," of which
we had scarcely been able to touch a mourn
ful for twenty-four hours, and ate our fill.
Then we smoked a pipe, and lay down by
the side of that blesed pool under the over
hanging shadow of the bank. nd slept till
trtMioay.
All that day we rested there by tho water,
thanking our t?r that we had Iteen lucky
enough to hud it, I u l as it wa. and not for
getting to ii-u ier u dm; Nharu of grutitudo le
the shade of the long -departed Da Silventra,
who had cork in I it down so accurately on the
toil of his shirt Tim wonderful thing to us
was that it should have limtd so long, and
the only way that 1 can account for it Is b
the supposition that it I fl by some spring
deep down in the sand.
Having filled both ourselves and our water
bottles as full as p.wsible. In fnr better spir
its we started off again with the moon. Tha
night we covered nearly live-and-twenty
miles, but, neediest to say, found no more
water, though we were lucky enough on the
following day to get a little shade la-hind
some ant heajKi. When the sun rose and,
for awhile, cleared away the mysterious
mists, Suliman's lleig and the two miiji'stic
breasts, now only aUmt twenty miles off.
seemed to tie towering right above us, and
looked grander than ever. At the approach
of evening we started on again, and, to cut
a long story t-hort by daylight next morning
found ourselves upon the lowest slopes of
Sheba's left breast, for which we had been
steadily steering. By this time our water
was again exhausted and we were suffering
severely from thirst nor Indeed could we sew
any chance of relieving it till we reached Wis
snow line far, far above us. After resting
an hour or two, driven to it by our torturing
thirst we went on again, tolling painfully in
the burning heat up the lava slopes, for we
found that the huge base of the mountain
was composed entirely of lava beds belched
out in some far past age.
By eleven o'clock we were utterly exhausted
and were, generally speaking, in a very bad
way, indeed. The lava clinkers, over which
we had to make our way, though compara
tively smooth compared with some clinker 1
have heard of, such as that on the Island of
Ascension for Instance, was yet rough
enough to make our feet very sore, and tills
together with our miseries, had pretty well
finished us. A few hundred yards above us
were some large lumps of lava, and toward
these we made with the intention of lying
down beneath their shade. We reached
them, and, to our surprise, so far as we had
a capacity for surprise left in us, on a little
plateau or ridge close by we saw that the
lava was covered with a dense green growth.
Evidently soil formed from decomposed lava
had rested there, and in due course had be
come the receptacle of seeds deposited by
birds. We did not take much further Inter
est in the green growth, for one cannot live
on grass like Nebuchadnezzar. That requires
a special dispensation of Providence and pe
culiar digestive organs. So we sat down un
der the rocks and groaned, and 1 for one
heartily wished that we had never started
on this fool's erramL As we were sitting
there I saw Umbopa get up and hobble off
toward the patch of green, and in a few
minutes afterward, to my great astonish
ment 1 perceived that usually uncommonly
dignified individual dancing and shouting
like a maniac and waving something green.
Off we all scrambled toward him as fast as '
our wearied limlx would carry us, hoping
that he had found water.
'What is it. l!mtopa. son of a fool?" I
shouted in Zulu.
"It is f or n and water, Maumazahn," and
again he waved tins green tiling.
Then I saw what he had got It was a
melon. We had hit uimmi a patch of wild
melons, thousands of them and dead rie.
"Melons!" 1 yelled to Good, who was next
me, and in another second he had his falso
teeth fixed in one.
I think we ate about six each before we
had done, and, poor fruit as they are, 1
doubt if I ever thought anything nicer.
But melons are not satisfying, and when
we had satisfied our thirst with their pulpy
substance, and set a stock to cool by the sim
ple process of cutting them in two and set
ting them end on in the hot sun to get cold
by evajioration, we began to feel exceeding
ly hungry. We had still some biltong left.
but our stomachs turned fro.-n lnjtong, and
besides we had to be. very sjiai ing of it, for
we could not say when wi: siioiild get more
food. Just at this lnoiii. nl :i lucky thing
happened. Looking toward the desert I
saw a Hock ot aoout ten iuic onus nying
straight toward us.
"Skit Baas, skit!" (shoot master, shoot).
whispered the Hottentot throwing himself
on his iace, an example which we an ioi
lowed. Then I saw that the birds were a flock of
pauw (Dustarus). ana mat mey woum pas
within fifty yards of my head. Taking one
of the repeating Winchesters I waited till
they were nearly over us, and then jump?d
on to my feet On seeing me the pauw
bunched together, as 1 expecUid they would.
and I fired two shots straight into the thick
of them, and, as luck would have it brought
one down, a tine fellow, that weighed about
twenty pounds. In half an hour we had
fire made of dry melon stalks, and he wac
toasting over it and we had such a feed a-
we bad not bad for a week. We ate tna
pauw; nothing was left of him but las bone.
and his beak, and felt not a little the better
afterward.
That night we again went on with the
moon, carrying as many melons as we coma
w ith us. As we got higher up we found the
air getting cooler and cooler, which was a
great relief to us, and at dawn, so far as we
could judge, were not more than about a
dozen miles from the snow-line. Here we
found more melons, so had no longer any
anxiety about water, for we knew that we
should soon get plenty of snow. But the
ascent had now become very precipitous,
and we made but slow progress, not more
than a mile an hour. Also that night we at
our last morsel of biltong. As yet, with the
exception of the pauw, we had seen no liv
ing thing on the mountain, nor had we come
across a single spring or stream of water,
which struck us very odd, considering all the
snow above ur. which must wetnougnt
melt sometimes. But as we afterward dis
covered, owing to some cause, which it is
quite beyond my power to explain, all
the streams Mowed down upon the noith side
of the mountains.
Wre now began to grow very anxious about
food. We had escaped death by thirst but
it seemed probable that it was only to die ot
hunger. The events of the next three miser
able days are best described by copying the
entries made at the time in my note-book.
21st May. Started 13 a. m., finding the
atmosphere quite cold enough to travel by
day, carrying some water-melons with us.
Struggled all day, but saw no more melons,
having, evidently, passed out of their dis
trict Saw no game of any sort Halted for
the night at sundown, having bad no food
for many hours, buffered much during the
night from cola.
22d. Started at sunrise again, feeling very
faint and weak. Only made five miles to
day; found some patches of snow, of which
we ate, but nothing else. Camped at night
under the edge of a great plateau. Cold bit
ter. Drank a little brandy each, and hud
dled ourselves together, each wrapped up in
our blanket to keep ourselves alive. Are
now suffering frightfully from starvation
and weariness. Thought that Ventvogel
would have died during the night