If I had seen General French sitting there and looking like nothing on earth I couldn't have been more surprised.
The man stared at me without recognition.

He was waiting for his cue.
I spoke rapidly in Sesutu, for I was afraid the captain might know Dutch.
'Where have you come from ?' I asked.
'They shut me up in _tronk_,' said Peter, 'and I ran away.

I am tired, Cornelis, and want to continue the journey by boat.' 'Remember you have worked for me in Africa,' I said.

'You are just home from Damaraland.

You are a German who has lived thirty years away from home.