Laputa, so far as I can guess at his mind, had a plan for getting over the Portuguese border, fetching a wide circuit, and joining his men at any of the concentrations between there and Amsterdam.
The two were seen at midday going down the road which leads from Blaauwildebeestefontein to the Lebombo.

Then they struck Arcoll's new front, which stretched from the Letaba to the Labongo.

This drove them north again, and forced them to swim the latter stream.

From there to the eastern extremity of the Rooirand, which is the Portuguese frontier, the country is open and rolling, with a thin light scrub in the hollows.

It was bad cover for the fugitives, as they found to their cost.