Heaven has prospered me so far--may it do so to the end, which for me draws nigh.

And now I am tired and will go back.

If you wish to see the old quarry and the mouth of the ancient mines, Stella will show them to you.

No, my love, you need not trouble to come, I can manage.

Look! some of the headmen are waiting to see me." So he went; but still followed by Hendrika and Indaba-zimbi, we turned, and, walking along the bank of one of the rivers, passed up behind the marble kraals, and came to the quarry, whence the material of which they were built had been cut in some remote age.