girls of common blood perhaps said the other but then i think that he has stolen her from her father without payment else he would not wish to hide her away in the secret well let her come for we women must work hard here where there are so few men and many clean a field quickly for my part i think there are enough of us already said the young girl looking troubled for she was s last wife and did not desire to be by a new favourite but be silent i hear bull head coming on his horse and she began to work very hard at cutting the a few minutes later saw himself ride up to the women who saluted him calling him chief and � husband you are idle he said them angrily these are tough to cut husband murmured the young woman in excuse still you must cut them quicker girl he answered what the cow showed if you would not learn how one of them feels upon your back it will go hard with all of you if the big hut is not finished in seven days from now we will do our best said the girl but who is to dwell in the hut when it is done not you be sure of that he answered roughly nor any black woman for i am weary of you one and all listen i go to morrow with my servants to fetch a chief a white lady to rule over you but if any of you speak a word of her presence here you will pay for it for i shall turn you away to starve do you understand we hear you husband they replied somewhat sullenly for now they understood that this new wife would be a mistress and not a sister to them then be careful that you do not forget my words and � � so soon as you have cut a full lo d of let two of you carry them up to the yonder where they are wanted but be careful that no one sees you going in or coming out we hear you husband they said again whereon turned and rode away now although was said to be foolish chiefly as i think because he could not or would not work yet in many ways he was than most and especially always did he desire to see new places the more so if they chanced to be secret places therefore when he heard command the women to carry the rods to the hidden he determined that he would follow them and this he did so that they neither heard nor saw him at first he wondered whither they could be going for they walked straight to the foot of what seemed to be an wall of rock more than a hundred feet high on the face of this rock however shrubs grew swallow here and there like the on the back of a and having first glanced round to see that no one was watching them the women climbed to one of these shrubs which was rooted in the cliff about the height of a man above the level of the ground and vanished so quickly that who was watching rubbed his eyes in wonder after waiting a while however he followed in their steps to find that behind the was a narrow m crack such as are often to be seen in cliffs and that down this ran a pathway which twisted and turned in the rock growing broader as it went till at last it ended in the hidden this was a very beautiful spot about three or six english acres in extent and walled all round with cliffs down the face of one of these cliffs fell a forming a deep pool out of which a stream ran and on the banks of this stream the new hut was being built in such a position that the heat of the sun could strike it but little while he was taking note of these and other saw some of those who were working at the hut leave it and start to walk towards the so having learnt everything that he could he thought that it was time to go and slipped away back to the bush and thence by the road which the cow had shown him now it chanced that as he went pierced his foot with a large thorn so that he was only able to travel slowly on the fifth night of his journey he into a wood to sleep which wood grew not much more than two hours on horseback from our farm when he had been asleep for some hours he woke up for all his food was done and he could not rest well because of his hunger and was astonished to see the light of a fire among the trees at some distance from him towards this fire he crept thinking what the cow showed z that there were herds or travellers who would give him food but when he came to it he did not ask for any since the first thing he saw was himself walking up and down in front of the fire while at some distance from it lay a number of his men asleep in their presently another man appeared slipping through the tree trunks and coming to saluted him tell me you have found out he said this answered the man i went down to s place and begged a of meal there pretending that i was a stranger on a journey to court a girl at a distant the slaves gave me meal and some flesh with it and i learned in talk with them that the his his daughter and the young englishman all rode away yesterday to the party of the first born of the who lives about five hours 