"INSPANN AND TREK!" With all his confidence in the protection of a Supreme Being, Von Bloom knew that he was not to leave everything to the Divine hand.

That was not the religion he had been taught; and he at once set about taking measures to extricate himself from the unpleasant position in which he was placed.
_Unpleasant_ position! Ha! It was more than unpleasant, as the field-cornet began to perceive.

It was a position of _peril_! The more Von Bloom reflected, the more was he convinced of this.

There they were, in the middle of a black naked plain, that without a green spot extended beyond the limits of vision.

How much farther he could not guess; but he knew that the devastations of the migratory locust sometimes cover an area of thousands of miles! It was certain that the one that had just swept past was on a very extensive scale.
It was evident he could no longer remain by his kraal.