There won't be any dry watercourses there like that," pointing with her whip.
"That is what you call a '_spruit_,' isn't it ?" "You are getting quite learned," he said.

"Yes, that is a _spruit_ and that is a _kopje_." "And that ?" She pointed farther on suddenly.

"What is that just above the watercourse?
Is it a Kaffir hut ?" "No," said Burke.
He spoke somewhat shortly.

The object she indicated was undoubtedly a hut; to Sylvia's unaccustomed eyes it might have been a cattle-shed.

It was close to the dry watercourse, a little lonely hovel standing among stones and a straggling growth of coarse grass.
Something impelled Sylvia to check her horse.