He was first promptly pursued on the night of the 2nd of February by Colonel Byng, who on Liebenberg's Vlei (west of Reitz) had lain in waiting for him.
They sat down to their little camp table, and then for an hour afterwards they cut bundles of long grass for their oxen that night, as Hume was determined to make long treks until they reached the vlei or lake.
They were told of a vlei five miles off, where some of the large antelopes gathered at sunrise, and getting the direction from the stars, Frank and Webster determined to walk there that night, so as to lose no time.
Out of the centre of the vlei rose the clear-cut head of a lioness, with her eyes gleaming green as emeralds.
A little further," said Hume, looking at the mountain; and they went on over a ridge and down into a rounded valley, where a small vlei shone like a jewel.
Signs were not wanting that the season had been exceptionally dry, for the vlei had at one time been of large extent, and now nothing but the one small pool remained.
The vlei being nearly exhausted, and the oxen having sore feet, I determined to go out and have a look for some water, and if I found any, to lead the waggons to it at once.
I had ordered the Kaffirs to drive the oxen far away, and to make them fast when they came near, so that the vlei might not be trampled in, and the water consequently spoiled.
Enough water was in the vleito last two or three days, with care.
We skirted the vlei to our left, got round the end of it, and at once rode through a lot of scherms containing hundreds of people.
Five miles from the river we came to a long narrow vlei [a vlei is a shallow valley, generally with water in it], which lay across our path.
Wilson came to me and said, "Burnham, can you follow back along the vlei where we've just come?
Retreating into the vlei in front of the King's camp, we stood calling and cooeying for them, long and low at first, then louder.
Meanwhile we had from day to day gone farther and farther from Reitz, and on Sunday, 6th January, we crossed Liebenberg's Vlei and remained that night on the bank of that river not far from Leeuw Kop.
In the evening we proceeded in the direction of Reitz, and camped at the confluence of Liebenberg's Vlei and Tyger Kloof; for it was General Botha's object to give the burghers some rest somewhere in the neighbourhood of that village.
After breakfast General de Villiers crossed Liebenberg's Vlei to reconnoitre the positions of the English from Langberg.
This must be ascribed to the fact that we spent the day pleasantly at Liebenberg's Vlei at the house of Mr. Juri Kemp.
On the 9th at Groen Vlei Lieutenant Watson, 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers, and Captain Cracroft, 1st Royal Irish Fusiliers, were wounded.
He had by now a goodly herd feeding in a green vlei near the border.
One of these was to move a waggon with sixteen fat oxen in charge of but two men into the open Vlei below Tarantaal Ridge, and there to leave it, apparently unguarded, for two hours.
They knew that in rear of the Vlei was a deep sand-drift, behind which a large body of men might be comfortably concealed, and consequently left waggon and cattle severely alone.
Having knee-haltered his horses, so that they could not stray far, Hans started with his gun to examine the edge of a vlei or marsh into which the little stream flowed, and where Hans believed he might find some game.
One is beside the Vlei near the Bavians Kloof; the other is in the thorn-bushes a mile from it.
The men in the vlei were knocked on the head with stones or knob-kerries, and a second disaster befell the Zulu army.
It was a solid piece of ground like a rocky island in the middle of a large vleior marsh.
The next day coals were found under the coach-house of John Murray on Broadway, and on the day following a fire broke out again near the Vlei Market.
The liquor remaining in the pannikin was just the color of milkless coffee made with vlei water.
When he began to sniff and walk up wind I took the rifle and followed, and only a little way off we came into dry vlei ground where there were few trees and the grass stood about waist high.
No doubt the rifle held in front of me made it difficult to notice anything on the ground; but the concentrated stare across the vlei in the direction of the galloping wildebeeste was quite as much the cause of what followed.
We turned then to the right and presently came upon some vlei ground densely covered with tall green reeds.
The southern slopes gradually down to an altitude of 2813 feet near the great Salt vlei Makarakara.
After heavy rains the vlei is full, and forms a fine sheet of water, which it retains for some months; wild-fowl and game frequent it at that time.
The next morning after the second day, started to the northwards; we passed a large vlei on the left, six miles from the Koranna station, which is the commencement of the sand-dunes.
On the east of Hogskin vlei is a large salt-pan or vlei, twelve miles in length from north to south and two broad.
On the south side of Hogskin vlei are two conical hills, which are very prominent objects, visible sixty miles off, and as they stand alone, surrounded by bush and the vleis, they add greatly to the beauty of the landscape.
Thirty five miles beyond is Berg fountain, close to the great vlei above-named.
On the east of this large vlei is an extensive salt-pan, but not used, as there are no inhabitants except Bushmen and Korannas.
At Liefdotes, Tobas, and Klopper vlei are large kraals, also at Swart and Hoali, on the north of the Brinus.
Smith, being sent to guard a culvert half-way to Reit Vlei Bridge.
It seemed clear that Verloren Vlei lay within a ring-fence of utterly inaccessible cliff wall.
Here, Koenraad," I said to my companion, "is proof positive that your mysterious vlei lies in the mountain and holds water.
He stayed a week, and he was for ever talking of a wonderful vlei [Pronounced flay, A vlei is the Dutch name for a shallow lake.
And yet Tobias was no fool; he described the vlei very plainly to us more than once; and he firmly believed in it.
We found no trace of a passage up the grim mountain-walls where poor Tobias had vanished; and as for the vlei itself, well, Hans and I could make nothing of it.
A careful examination convinced me that the marsh itself owed its origin to some subterraneous escape--very probably from the vlei itself--from within the mountains.
Having thus refreshed ourselves, and eaten some of the little store of food we had brought with us, we set out to explore the vlei thoroughly.
The vlei must be there; it was heart-breaking to be baffled in this way.
Quite in a chaffing way, I said: "We're going to discover your vlei and its secret after all, Koenraad.
Throwing a kaross over my shoulders, I left the hut, made of boughs, in which I was sleeping and walked a few paces to the crest of a rocky ridge, whence I could see the dry vlei below.
Out of the vlei rushed the buffalo by dozens, every one of them making remarks in its own language as it came.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vlei" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
