Afterwards you can follow on our spoor, and if you cannot find us, make your way back to the Baas Botmar and tell him all you know.

Quick, into the kloof, for here they cannot see you." "I hear you, lady," said Zinti, and the next minute they saw him leading his weary horse into the shelter of the thick bush, for the poor beast could carry him no more.
For the next three miles the ground trended downwards to the banks of a great river, beyond which were the gentle rising slopes that surrounded the foot of the high peak.

On they galloped, the _schimmel_ never faltering in his swinging stride, although his flanks grew thin and his eyes large.

But with the grey mare it was otherwise, for though she was a gallant nag her strength was gone.

Indeed, with any heavier rider upon her back, ere this she would have fallen.