They have no fixed villages, and the want of water would render it impossible for us to go very far.

But the worst point would be that they all seem to be well informed as to what is going on.

I suppose they get warnings from the native herdsmen and servants, and if we were all together to enter their country, we must leave the stations unprotected, and we should find them in ashes, on our return." "Yes, that is true," the settler said.

"I suppose it couldn't be done.

But it's anxious work sleeping here, night after night, with one's rifle by one's bedside, never certain at what hour one may be woke by the yelling of the blacks.