The patient indifference with which these savages will sit unmoved through any fortune and let time run over them, is almost like the solemn calm of nature's own laws.

The whites are restless and probably suffer more.

Many were in extreme misery.

Three or four young children died on the journey.

One poor woman became a mother in the train just after the frontier, and died, leaving the baby alive.
At the border I found many English and Scotch families, who had driven across the veldt from Ermelo, surrendering all their possessions.