But when we reached the place it was too late, for all that remained of the Amahagger, or of Inez and Janee, were the two dead men whom we had killed, and in that darkness pursuit was impossible.

So we went back to our own camp to rest and await the dawn before taking up the trail, only to find ourselves confronted with a new trouble.

All the Strathmuir half-breeds whom we had left behind as useless, had taken advantage of our absence and that of the Zulus, to desert.

They had just bolted back upon our tracks and vanished into the sea of bush.

What became of them I do not know, as we never saw them again, but my belief is that these cowardly fellows all perished, for certainly not one of them reached Strathmuir.
Fortunately for us, however, they departed in such a hurry that they left all their loads behind them, and even some of the guns they carried.