Do you drive after me for all you are worth, even if they are swept off their feet.

I can trust my beast to swim straight, and being a mare, I hope that the horses will follow her as they have done all night.
Wake up Heda and Kaatje." He nodded, and looking very pale, said-- "Heda my dear, I am sorry to disturb you, but we have to get over a river with a rough bottom, so you and Kaatje must hang on and sit tight.

Don't be frightened, you are as safe as a church." "God forgive him for that lie," thought I to myself as, having tightened the girths, I mounted my mare.

Then gripping the riem I kicked the beast to a canter, Anscombe flogging up the team as we swung down the bank to the edge of the foaming torrent, on the further side of which the Swazis shouted and gesticulated to us to go back.
We were in it now, for, as I had hoped, the horses followed the mare without hesitation.

For the first twenty yards or so all went well, I heading up the stream.