Captain Hood’s wound gave him considerable pain, although it was but skin-deep. A little more though would have caused him to lose the use of his right arm.
For my part, I felt nothing of the violent blow which had thrown me to the ground. We resolved to return to Steam House as soon as day began to dawn.
As to Mathias van Guitt, except for regretting the loss of three of his people, he was not at all disheartened, although the being deprived of his buffaloes must put him to some inconvenience when the time for his departure came.
“It is but the chances of the trade,” he said, “and I have for long had a presentiment that an adventure of this kind would befall me.”
He then proceeded to arrange for the interment of the three natives, whose remains were laid in a corner of the kraal in a
