We had seen their footsteps fresh in the way, and they had watched our slow movements forward, and wondered to see how we, without any Bushmen, found our way to the waters.

This was the first time they had seen Ramotobi.

"You have reached the river now," said they; and we, quite disposed to laugh at having won the game, felt no ill-will to any one.

They seemed to feel no enmity to us either; but, after an apparently friendly conversation, proceeded to fulfill to the last the instructions of their chief.
Ascending the Zouga in our front, they circulated the report that our object was to plunder all the tribes living on the river and lake; but when they had got half way up the river, the principal man sickened of fever, turned back some distance, and died.

His death had a good effect, for the villagers connected it with the injury he was attempting to do to us.