y moons ago some white men had come on the coast, and had
landed and had carried off some men and women from a kraal; that when
the Caffres had assembled to get back their friends, the white men had
fired their guns at them and had killed several Caffres, and then
escaped in their boats. So that the chiefs had agreed that, if ever
white people came again on the coast, they were to be watched,
surprised, and the men assagied. From what I afterwards learned, I
believe the men who thus visited the coast were slave-hunters.

We passed several kraals on our journey, at most of which the people
came out and spoke to us, and every one who saw my necklace at once
addressed me as "Inkosana." At least a dozen times Inyoni gave an
account of my leopard-trap, and how we had killed this leopard, and I
found myself looked at with envy by the boys and admiration by the
girls, whilst both were very friendly, and usually walked with me for
some distance on the journey.

The sun was several times its own diameter above the horizon when we
reached a kraal in which, so Inyoni told me, one white woman was living.
I entered this kraal, and Inyoni telling the head man that the chief
had allowed me to come to visit the white woman, I was shown a hut and
told I might go in. On entering this hut I saw Constance, who at once
caught me in her arms and kissed me, expressing great delight at seeing
me, as she feared I had been killed. I soon told her all that had
happened to me, and that I was well-treated and not very unhappy. She
listened to all I had to say, and told me she was very glad to hear so
good an account, but that she was utterly miserable and wished she were
dead. I tried to cheer her by giving her hopes of a better future, but
she assured me it was impossible that we should ever see our friends
again, and that if she did not marry one of the chief's sons they
intended to kill her. We sat talking the greater part of the night, and
the next morning went for a walk, the Caffres appearing to take no
notice of us, though I could see one or two boys go on the hill-tops and
sit down, evidently to watch us. We sat down under the shade of some
euphorbia trees and talked over our prospects. Constance could tell me
nothing of Mrs Apton or her daughter; they had been taken away to some
distant kraal, and for a long time I heard nothing of them. I passed
the whole of my time with Constance, and promised to come and see her
again; then,