Joeboy going to look for wagons." "Stop a moment," I whispered.

"Are you going to leave me here ?" "Um?
Boss Val lie still and have good rest.

Joeboy come back soon." "But do you think you can find me again ?" I said.
He put his lips close to my ear again and laughed softly.
"Um?
Oh yes, Joeboy find um sure enough.

See a lot in the dark.

Boss Val lie quite still." Before I could remonstrate against a plan which, it seemed to me, might, ruin our expedition, he had crept away; and from the direction he took I knew he had gone off to the left, going quite fast, and progressing in a style which, in old days, I had often laughingly said was like that of the crocodiles of the Limpopo.