Hendrika walked boldly through it, holding Tota in her arms.

Stella leapt across from stone to stone like a roebuck; I thought to myself that she was the most graceful creature that I had ever seen.

After this the track passed around a pleasantly-wooded shoulder of the peak, which was, I found, known as Babyan Kap, or Baboon Head.

Of course we could only go at a foot pace, so our progress was slow.

Stella walked for some way in silence, then she spoke.
"Tell me, Mr.Allan," she said, "how it was that I came to find you dying in the desert ?" So I began and told her all.