But what of yourself ?" "It is my plan to hide on the mountain," Sihamba answered quickly, "in a secret place I know of, seeing that it is impossible that I should escape because my stature would betray me.

I will join you at the Boer camp later; or, failing that, you can return in a while--say on the first night of the new moon--to search for me.

But talk no more, for we have still much to do.

Yes, we who have made a white woman black, must make a black woman white.

Follow me, both of you," and giving Zinti a jar of pigment and the long goat-skin cloak, which Suzanne wore for an outer garment, she left the hut, carrying in her hand strips of ox-hide tanned white.
Avoiding the groups of thirst-tormented people who sat or wandered about in the coolness of the night, they passed through the gates of the kraal unheeded, and walking quickly across the wide stretch of tableland reached the eastern edge of the cliff.