Coming nearer, he found it was no other than the wife of the absconding Kaffer herd.

She had a baby tied on her back by a dirty strip of red blanket; another strip hardly larger was twisted round her waist, for the rest her black body was naked.

She was a sullen, ill-looking woman with lips hideously protruding.
The German questioned her as to how she came there.

She muttered in broken Dutch that she had been turned away.

Had she done evil?
She shook her head sullenly.