the rocks like baboons,
and evidently frightened. We waited some time and then the Caffres
rushed on to the two men who had fallen and stabbed them with their
assagies. They were, however, quite dead, but Caffres like to make sure
there is no shamming. The bows and arrows of these men were taken, and
also some lion's teeth and claws that they wore; for these little
Bushmen will kill lions with their poisoned arrows, and also elephants.

The Caffres then all came round me and looked at my rifle with evident
signs of admiration. The distance at which I had killed the Bushmen was
to them a subject of profound astonishment, and also to see that the
bullet had gone completely through the men.

Our return to the village was a triumphant march, the men dancing,
singing, and brandishing their assagies. Inyati walked beside me
carrying the rifle, and asking me questions about the gun; how often it
could be fired, how far off it would kill, and how it was made. I was
the great hero of the day, child as I was, and these men now looked up
to me as to a chief. Our reception at the village was most
enthusiastic; men, women and children danced round us, shouting and
singing. Unless one had been persecuted as had these people, it would
be difficult to realise the importance of such an event as killing two
of their enemies. The people at this kraal assured us that the Bushmen
would now desert the country. They were very superstitious, and
wherever a Bushman died or was killed, that place was at once deserted,
as it was considered unlucky; so they felt certain that the Bushmen
would now leave that part of the country. Some of the Caffres who had
been out with me described to the people at the village how I had fired,
and how the Bushmen tumbled down the rock. They were capital actors,
and imitated the Bushmen very well. A young ox was killed for a feast,
and we had a great supper, many songs, and a large dance; and on the
following day returned towards our kraal, which we reached in seven
days--a longer time than we occupied on our journey from the kraal,
because now we drove with us ten cows, the reward given to Inyati for
his assistance.

CHAPTER SIX.

A few days after our return from the expedition against the Bushmen,
Inyati called me one morning to his hut, in which were two of his
counsellors. He then told me that I was raised to the rank of a
counsellor, and that he intended to give me three of the cows that