History will also tell you how the rebellion was put down; and how several of those compromised were brought to execution.

Von Bloom escaped by flight; but his fine property in the Graaf Reinet was confiscated and given to another.
Many years after we find him living in a remote district beyond the great Orange River, leading the life of a "trek-boor,"-- that is, a nomade farmer, who has no fixed or permanent abode, but moves with his flocks from place to place, wherever good pastures and water may tempt him.
From about this time dates my knowledge of the field-cornet and his family.

Of his history previous to this I have stated all I know, but for a period of many years after I am more minutely acquainted with it.
Most of its details I received from the lips of his own son, I was greatly interested, and indeed instructed, by them.

They were my first lessons in _African zoology_.
Believing, boy reader, that they might also instruct and interest you, I here lay them before you.

You are not to regard them as merely fanciful.