These voracious creatures, with great audacity, often descended to within a few feet of the heads of our horses, which seemed terror-stricken at their near approach.
On the way we saw a herd of wild cattle, which scoured the plain in consternation on espying our party; urging on our horses, we tried to bring one down, but they outstripped us.
The road, or rather path, led us through fields, covered with the greatest profusion of bright yellow sunflowers and scarlet dahlias, so tall that they came up to our horses' ears.
This is as steep, or nearly as steep as the first; but we were already confident in the sure-footedness of our horses, and even able to admire the view as we ascended single file.
Having driven off our unwelcome visitors, Charley and I went in search of our horses, as we were afraid they might have been attacked.
We crossed the burnt prairie, our horses' hoofs stirring up the ashes as we scampered along.
Our horses seemed to know their danger as well as we did.
Emus were very numerous on the downs and their curiosity brought them to stare at our horses, apparently unconscious of the presence of the biped on their backs whom both birds and beasts seem instinctively to avoid.
Dew had providentially fallen during the night and it proved in some measure a substitute for the want of water to our horses.
As the grass was good I halted during the remainder of the day for the sake of our horses; although the delay subjected us to another night in the bush.
The steps of our horses on the slippery gravel awoke strange discordant sounds like the screaming of monkeys at play.
We descended by a different route, on the south side of the mountain, to our horses, and made a lark of it.
As to our horses, the young woman with a baby in her arms declared, "We've got nothing for stock but roughness; perhaps you can get something at the other house.
Early in the spring we round up the dogies, Mark and brand and bob off their tails; Round up our horses, load up the chuck-wagon, Then throw the dogies upon the trail.
We hitched up our horses and we started our train; Three more bloody battles this trip on the plain; And in our last battle three of our brave boys fell, And we left them to rest in a green, shady dell.
We made it to our horses; I tell you, we had no fun; Over the prickly pear and catclaw brush we quickly made our way; We thought of our long journey and the girls we'd left one day.
Next morning 'bout day break we started our work, Our horses, like 'possums, felt fine.
Some of our horses were so stung by flies that the blood flowed to the stones under their feet as they went along.
Fortunately for us there was no wind blowing, but several times as the fiery ashes had been drifted upon the road, our horses had no choice but to step into them.
The Arabs scrambled like wild animals over the rocks, and brought down very long streamers of honeysuckle, Luwayeh, as they call it, which they wound round and round the necks of our horses, and generally got piastres for doing so.
Rested by the roadside for luncheon; came to the village of Hhooleh, thence into lower valleys of green woods, often with scarce room to pass ourselves, our horses, and the luggage between branches of trees for some successive hours.
Our horses became so much scattered during the night, that we were detained till one o'clock before they were all collected.
About three miles distance, we joined the men who had been sent from the Maha village with our horses, and who brought us two deer.
The grass on the hill sides is perfectly dry and parched by the sun, but near the spring was a fine green grass: we therefore halted for dinner and turned our horses to graze.
In the wide valley at their junction, we discovered a large encampment of Indians: when we had reached them and alighted from our horses, we were received with great cordiality.
We passed this ungenial line, therefore, and encamped near a fine pool of water, where both our own wants and those of our horses, as far as feed and water went, were abundantly supplied.
We were obliged to fasten up our horses to prevent them from straying for water, and had, therefore, nothing to do but to saddle them on the morning of the 10th, and started at six.
I left it, and once more running on our old course, pulled up at sunset under a bank of sand, without anything either for ourselves or our horsesto drink.
Our horses beginning to flag, I halted at five on the side of the ridge, near a small puddle that had only water enough for them to drink off at once.
At this my breath was quite taken away; for we think so much of our horses.
Therefore, I fell back in thought, not daring in words to do so, upon the titles of our horses.
It was evening before we reached the river, and, by that time, we were so much maddened with hunger, that we seriously thought of killing one of our horses.
Giving the Shoshone war-whoop, and making as much noise as we could, we spurred on our horses, and in a few moments each of us had secured a piece of meat from the poles.
We rode leisurely along until we had reached the more thickly settled portion of the city, when we halted, and after taking the bridles from our horses to allow them to graze, we prepared for a regular attack upon its inhabitants.
By various stratagems, which I shall not dwell upon, aided by the good condition of our horses, we contrived to escape them, and to bring our prisoners safe into the settlement.
Then it meant a running and seeking, an examining of marks and tokens, until the stupid among us were obliged to tie ribbons to our horses as a means of recognising them.
But our people were retreating from the other kopjes, and we had to get to our horses as quickly as possible.
There was scarcely any grass for our horses, and yet we had to ride hard night and day.
At Trichardsfontein Malherbe and I had to go in search of our horses, which had strayed, so we were separated from our commando for some days.
Our horses plunged on again, fretting at the curb.
Enderly, as we swung into a canter, our horses' hoofs drumming thunder on the quivering planks that jumped beneath us as we spurred to a gallop.
Our horses slackened to a canter, to a trot, then to a walk as the road rose upward, set with boulders and loose stones.
Again we galloped alone; and as our horses' hoofs beat drummers' music out of the round earth our dialogue drifted into confessions of our own most private theories of conduct, character and creation.
On entering the stable to put up our horses we suddenly looked at each other very straight, while Ferry's countenance confessed more pleasure than surprise, though a touch of care showed with it.
On our horses out in the open road to the house, we sat, the girl perched behind the Colonel, and watched the fire mount and whirl and crackle behind the awful black arms of the cotton-press.
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