Just then Stella realized the position.
"Come down, you savage, come down!" she said, stamping her foot.
The extraordinary creature flung herself from the horse and literally grovelled on the ground before her mistress and burst into tears.
"Pardon, Miss Stella," she clicked and grunted in villainous English, "but he called me 'Babyan-frau' (Baboon-woman)." "Tell your servant that he must not use such words to Hendrika, Mr.
Allan," Stella said to me.

"If he does," she added, in a whisper, "Hendrika will certainly kill him." I explained this to Indaba-zimbi, who, being considerably frightened, deigned to apologize.

But from that hour there was hate and war between these two.
Harmony having been thus restored, we started, the dogs following us.
A small strip of desert intervened between us and the slope of the peak--perhaps it was two miles wide.

We crossed it and reached rich grass lands, for here a considerable stream gathered from the hills; but it did not flow across the barren lands, it passed to the east along the foot of the hills.

This stream we had to cross by a ford.