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The Tugela is not far away, and ill swirow stiff"

So ent on, till presently we reached the crest of a rise of ground

overlooking the river, and there saw and heard dreadful things, for

beneath us those devilish Usutu were itives and the

ca driven by the hundred to the edge of

the water, there to perish on the banks or in the strea forms

And oh! the sounds! Well, these I will not attempt to describe

"Keep up streaa, where only a feounded men were hidden, into a somewhat denser

patch of bush that had scarcely been entered by the flying Isigqosa,

perhaps because here the banks of the river were very steep and

difficult; also, between them its waters ran swiftly, for this was above

the drift

For a while ent on in safety, then suddenly I heard a noise A great

h the bush like a buffalo, and caela, for the floods had

eaten away the soil beneath