We outspanned for the second time at the house of De Koker, who had been the first to advise me to visit the laager.
At midday we outspanned to rest the horses and eat our lunch, and in the afternoon we crossed the great Marico River, where was situated a deserted and ruined hotel and store.
No questions as to being at home, disengaged, or follies of that sort, were asked; the horses were solemnly outspanned and allowed to roam; the family party had come to spend the day.
We outspanned for breakfast twelve miles out, at the farm of a presumably loyal Dutchman; then on again, the wind by now having become a hurricane, aggravated by the intensely hot rays of a scorching sun.
But as the waggon had travelled that morning over twelve miles of a heavy rain-soaked road, it was absolutely necessary that the horses should be outspanned for rest.
Here we outspanned for a short time, but we could not wait long, for our pursuers were following us at a great pace.
We crossed the Lundi, and somewhere beyond where one of their worst nights was passed we outspanned in peace and security, and gossiped over the ruins of ancient temples and the graves of modern pioneers.
We were outspanned above the cutting, and the oppressive heat of the day and the sultriness of the evening seemed to have told on our party, and we were all squatted about on the long soft grass, smoking or thinking.
This very day last year I was outspanned on this spot, as we are now.
We outspanned and went on with the struggle soon after sunrise, putting shoulders to wheels in wild earnest.
We outspanned in a valley where the new green of the grass had come already.
Not till we had knocked under, and outspanned once more did we struggle through.
We outspanned in a very green valley, I remember, and sat long over roast monkey-nuts that his driver benignantly provided.
At nightfall, more dead than alive, we outspanned beneath the loom of a gigantic mountain range, whose recesses we were to pierce on the following morning.
The waggons--he had a friendly trader with him by this time--had crossed the Limpopo and outspanned one hot evening in a tiny Boer village, the most remote of the rude frontier settlements of the Transvaal Republic.
Here we outspanned for a final rest before completing our work, if to complete it were possible.
I first saw him, outspanned at breakfast, near Palla Camp on the Crocodile River, with a number of other men, going into Mashonaland upon the same errand as himself.
And so, very reluctantly on my part, we made our way back to the waggons, which had been standing for weeks outspanned on the southern bank of the river, in charge of our men.
On waking up next morning, after a hard and distressing trek from the nearest water in this thirsty country--Lopepe--I was surprised to see another waggonoutspanned almost alongside.
That evening we outspanned in a howling wilderness of loose and scorching sand, upon which scarcely a bush or shrub found subsistence.
Gold Commissioner and the Doctor occupied the other; and it was at the foot of the latter hill that I outspanned my waggon at a distance of not more than twenty yards from Mr. Graham’s compound.
He had gone away with a cart and four oxen to buy some native meal at one of the Kafir kraals, and had outspannedfor the night at a spot about six miles distant from the little township.
The spot where the waggons lay outspanned was close to de Windt's old farm, in the same area of brooding peace Vivienne had visited the day before--but with how different a mood!
The two parties trekked and outspanned together as though they were one, yet after the first day never a word passed between them.
The tale first got credence among others besides the natives on the disappearance from some transport waggons outspanned near the mountain of a little Kaffir child.
At broad noon, they outspanned by a mule stable on the banks of the Lundi, and made a fire for which Vivienne helped collect sticks.
All were thankful enough when next mid-day found them outspanned for an hour or two beside a mule stable.
Then we outspanned on a grass slope, at the edge of a wood of firs and beech trees.
The wagons and oxen outspanned in a field behind the hospital houses.
We took advantage of the halt to send the drivers for hay for the oxen and horses, and weoutspanned for two hours.
At dusk we outspanned for the night, in the snow, at the top of a hill, near an Arnaut village.
Wednesday the 24th) the oxen could go no farther, and we outspanned for two hours in a wood by the side of the road, and we slept in the wagons for those two hours till 11 p.
They said that they had already outspanned their oxen and lighted their fires.
It was true that the columns around us had outspanned their oxen, and the men were sitting complacently round their ubiquitous fires, though the Bulgarian guns were dinning louder and louder every minute in their ears.
I did a short trek that evening, and outspanned early.
A day or two later we outspanned close to some water-holes.
There we found our relays of mules, and on a dusty patch near the mule-scherm we outspannedfor the night.
They travelled slowly, the men hunting along the route, and outspanned for days, and even weeks, at pleasant watering-places.
At the foot of the pass we forded the Magalies River, a stream of clear water running over a bed of grey-blue stones, and in another half-hour we had crossed the bridge of the Crocodile and outspanned on the farther bank.
The voortrekker having fought his way through the Magaliesberg passes, outspanned his tired oxen on this pleasant upland, and called it his "city of rest.
In the late afternoon we came to large belts of trees around a ruined farmhouse, and as the sky was beginning to threaten we outspanned for the night.
We outspanned at midday near some pools of indifferent water, which our authorities had enthusiastically described as an abundant water-supply.
We outspanned at a Boer farm and dined with the family off home-made bread, confyt, and tea.
At midday we outspanned at a pretty native village called Rooijantjesfontein, with a large church after the English village pattern, and a big dam lined with poplars.
We outspanned for the night without water, and with the accompaniment of scherm and camp fires.
We outspanned for lunch at Vanderpoel's store, which is a couple of huts in a perfectly flat dusty plain with a fine ring of hazy mountains around it.
In the evening we outspanned on the farm of Petrus Schoeman and halted for the night, expecting to hear from General de Wet every moment.
It was dark when we reached the river by Umbulwana; and as it was dangerous, and, indeed, impossible to cross the drift except in daylight, we outspanned by the river bank and made a pretence of sleeping.
In the rear the whistle and puff of a train at Chieveley sounded curiously out of place, and about the outskirts of the hospital some outspanned oxen were grazing as unconcernedly as if they were wandering in a meadow in England.
I was unable to do so at that time; but later, on my way up-country, I outspanned at Nooitgedacht, and stayed several nights.
Puff-adder Brown has an extra light wagon outspanned with fourteen good oxen at Jackal's Pan.
One afternoon about this time a great wagon lumbered in to swell the already unwieldy proportions of the trek, and outspanned under a big tree.
We settled to trek thither, hunting on our way; and in six days' time we found ourselves outspannedfor the night beneath the loom of the great rock fortress which held so securely the Dutchman's secret.
Just beyond where the Steyns had outspanned was the wagon of another traveller.
Not long after, we were outspanned together on the Crocodile River, in a clear place where there was no tse-tse fly for some miles.
Northward we trekked steadily through wild desolate country for the best part of one day, and outspanned by a desert pool for the night.
Hendricks having outspannedin an open place at the entrance of the town, left Umgolo to look after the waggon, and took Denis and Lionel to dispose of them as he had arranged.
Fortunately, Hendricks had outspannedat no great distance off, and had sent out some hunters, who, coming up directly afterwards, assisted us in carrying the wounded man to the camp.
Some further distance had to be traversed before water was reached, when the travellers outspanned for their morning meal, as also to afford the oxen rest after the toils they had gone through.
I'm sure the little chap is English," said Denis to Hendricks, when they outspanned for the night.
Forty days after leaving the Cape, they outspanned on the banks of the Orange river, into which Paul, without any ceremony, plunged with eagerness and enjoyed his first swim in Africa.
The mountains being passed after a hard day's travel they entered the little village of Ceres where they outspanned for the night.
The wagons were outspanned in an open space about three hundred yards away, and thither the Reverend Josiah hastened with a hearty welcome.
We outspannedhere for an hour, as I found riding very severe toil after my late kicking.
We had to fill a canvas bucket with a pint pot to water our horses, and weoutspanned for the remainder of the day at this exceedingly welcome spot.
They were hobbled out in the excellent herbage, which was better here than where we first outspanned them.
Here we outspanned for an hour and had some dinner, much to the satisfaction of our now, only two attendants; we had come about six miles.
Outspanned under a large tree; boys employed skinning a koodoo, killed early this morning by one of my Bushmen guides with his poisoned arrow.
I took my waggon andoutspanned alongside of Mr Wood's waggons, on the opposite rise to the kraal, to be free from the people, and have some peace; and remained the day.
It is true I had been nearly a week outspanned near their two separate kraals, and they were daily at my waggon with milk, so that I was to a certain extent known to them, few white men being seen down so far in that part of Zululand.
We therefore had to go round through the gorges and over steep and stony hills--no roads in this wild country-- and outspanned for the night close to a mountain stream surrounded by lofty hills, covered with bush.
Treked three miles and outspanned to give oxen a feed on green young grass, as they have not had water since Monday afternoon.
Leaving Motsodie in the afternoon, I crossed the river, and as night would be dark, outspanned early, to be prepared for any nocturnal visits from our feline friends.
One afternoon,” continued Hutton, “I outspanned near a pool, where many animals of different sorts came at night to drink.
Day passed into twilight and dusk broke into moonbeams; then, jaded and travel-sore, they outspanned for a brief rest.
The baggage crossed the river, and outspanned the same evening.
The whole route was now purged of Boers, and when at dusk the column outspanned it was but for a brief hour or two.
When outspanned for breakfast they saw a lot of cattle and some horses being driven towards them.
The wagons had outspanned on the mountain slope, not far below the du Plessis' dwelling.
At the top of the saddle the oxen were outspanned and driven to the spring to take their last drink before entering the region of thirst.
I was outspanned one night towards the close of the year 1891 in Mashunaland near the Hanyani river, not many miles from the town of Salisbury.
I had outspanned my waggon there one evening, and having bought a large fat goat, which must have weighed fifty pounds as it stood, I fastened it by one of its forelegs to one of the front wheels of the waggon.
He was outspanned one night near a native village not far from Umtali, where he had gone to buy grain.
That same afternoon he outspanned early near a small stream running into the Umfuli, as a heavy thunderstorm was threatening.
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