Among these were the companies under the Heer Triegaart and the Heer Rensenburg, who wished us to accompany him, but Jan would not, I do not know why.

It was as well, for the knob-nosed Kaffirs killed him and everybody with him.

Triegaart, who had separated from him, trekked to Delagoa Bay, and reached it, where nearly all his people died of fever.
After that we moved northwards in detachments, instead of keeping together as we should have done, with the result that several of our parties were fallen upon and murdered by the warriors of Moselikatse.
Our line of march was between where Bloemfontein and Winburg now stand in the Orange Free State, and it was south of the Vaal, not far from the Rhenoster River that Moselikatse attacked us.
I cannot tell the tale of all this way, I can only tell of what I saw myself.

We were of the party under the leadership of Carl Celliers, afterwards an elder of the church at Kronnstadt.

Celliers went on a commission to Zoutpansberg to spy out the land, and it was while he was away that so many families were cut off by Moselikatse, the remainder of them, with such of their women and children as were left alive, retreating to our laager.