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Then, taking with un, that same little Purdey

rifle hich I shot the vultures on the Hill of Slaughter at

Dingaan's Kraal,[] we started on foot, for I would not risk my only

horse on such a journey

[--For the story of this shooting of the vultures by Allan

Quaterh journey it proved to be indeed, over a series of bush-clad hills

that at their crests were covered with rugged stones a which no

horse could have travelled Up and down these hills ent, and across

the valleys that divided the so day I have always been held a good walker,

being by nature very light and active; but I am bound to say that my

companion taxed my powers to the ut ahead of me at such a rate that at times I was

forced to break into a run to keep up with hih my pride would

not suffer me to complain, since as a matter of principle I would never

adh was I

when, towards evening, Saduko sat himself down on a stone at the top of

a hill and said: "Behold the Black Kloof, Macumazahn," which were almost the first words

he had uttered since we started