"All dark.

No see Boss Val; no see horse." "But they'll hear his hoofs.

There are sure to be plenty of sentries." "Um, plenty much Boer.

Go soft, soft.

Then Sandho gallop." "And what about you ?" I said, as I grasped that he meant we were to steal along softly in the darkness till we were heard, and then that I was to gallop.