For aught we know it may be true, but if true then it is the work of magic and we will have nothing to do with it.

Should you wish to go to seek this mountain Umpondwana you must go alone, for we cannot alter our plans to trek there with you.

But we counsel you not to go, since no good can come of visions and magic." When I heard this I answered him back, but Jan and Ralph went away, and presently I found them talking together outside the laager.
"Let me go alone," Ralph was saying.
"Nay," Jan answered, "I will accompany you, for two are better than one; also I shall not sleep till I find out the truth and know whether Suzanne lives or is dead." "Indeed! and what is to become of me ?" I asked.
"You, vrouw, can stop with the neighbours here, and we will join you in Natal." "You will do no such thing, Jan Botmar," I answered, "for where you two go there I can go.

What! Am I not sick also with love for my daughter and anxious to learn her fate ?" "As you will, wife," answered Jan; "perhaps it is well that we three should not separate who have been together always," and he went to see about the waggon.
As soon as the moon rose, which was about eleven o'clock, the oxen were inspanned.

Before we started, however, several of our friends came praying us not to venture on so perilous a journey; indeed, they threatened even to use force to prevent us, and I think would have done so had not Jan told them outright that we were our own masters and free to go where we wished.