In the other he held his stick--a long walking kerrie that he always carried, the same on which he had shown Bessie the notches.

In order to secure the piece of money he dropped the stick, and Muller's quick eye catching sight of the notches beneath the knob, he stooped down, picked it up, and examined it.
"What do these mean, boy ?" he asked, pointing to the line of big and little notches, some of which had evidently been cut years ago.
Jantje touched his hat, spat upon the "Scotchman," as the natives of that part of Africa call a two-shilling piece,[*] and pocketed it before he answered.

The fact that the giver had murdered all his near relations did not make the gift less desirable in his eyes.

Hottentot moral sense is not very elevated.
[*] Because once upon a time a Scotchman made a great impression on the simple native mind in Natal by palming off some thousands of florins among them at the nominal value of half a crown.
"No, Baas," he said with a curious grin, "that is how I reckon.

If anybody beats Jantje, Jantje cuts a notch upon the stick, and every night before he goes to sleep he looks at it and says, 'One day you will strike that man twice who struck you once,' and so on, Baas.