After that we pushed on day and night, for we knew that the old woman would tell the pursuers if she met them; and so indeed it came about.

On the third evening we reached some mealie gardens, and saw that they had been trampled down.

Among the broken mealies we found the body of a very old man, as full of assegai wounds as a porcupine with quills.

We wondered at this, and went on a little way.

Then we saw that the kraal to which the gardens belonged was burnt down.