It was as though they had reached some boundary which they knew it would not be lawful for them to pass.

They simply stopped, took the dead man's assegai and shield from the body and walked quietly back towards the wagon, leaving him where he lay.

The horse stopped also, or rather proceeded at a walk.
"There!" exclaimed Anscombe.

"Did I not tell you I had a presentiment that I should kill a man in this accursed wood ?" "Yes," I said as soon as I had recovered my breath, "but you mixed up a woman with the matter and I don't see one." "That's true," he replied, "I hope we shan't meet her later." Then we went on as quickly as we could, which was not very fast, for I feared lest the Basutos should change their minds and follow us.

As the risk of this became less our spirits rose, since if we had lost the wagon and the oxen, at least we had saved our lives, which was almost more than we could have expected in the circumstances.