My eye caught something; it was the faint grey light of the dawn glinted on the cattle's horns.

As I looked, one of them snorted, rose and shook the dew from his hide.

He seemed big as an elephant in the mist and twilight.
Then I collected them all--there were seventeen--and drove them before me down the narrow path back towards the kraal.

Now the daylight came quickly, and the sun had been up an hour when I reached the spot where I must turn if I wished to hide the cattle in the secret place, as Noma had bid me.

But I would not do this.