Otherwise I would certainly stop here in the camp, where there is plenty to eat and little work to do, as, were I you, I should do also for love of that white missie.

But duty--pah! that is a fool-word, which makes bones of a man before his time and leaves his girl to others." "Of course, you do not understand, Hans, any more than you coloured people understand what gratitude is.

But what do you mean about this trek of ours?
Are you afraid ?" He shrugged his shoulders.

"A little, perhaps, baas.

At least, I should be if I thought about the morrow, which I don't, since to-day is enough for me, and thinking about what one can't know makes the head ache.
Dingaan is not a nice man, baas; we saw that, didn't we?
He is a hunter who knows how to set a trap.