Salem is, as it should be, a peaceful spot. It was not always so. There was a time when its inhabitants had to toil2, so to speak, with the spade in one hand, and the musket3 in the other. It lies in a hollow of the great rolling plains, and was founded, like many of the eastern towns, in the memorable4 “1820,” when the “British settlers” came out, and a new era for the colony began.
The arrival of the original settlers at Salem is thus described by one who was a noted5 leader in the first days:
“Our Dutch wagon6-driver intimating that we had at length reached our proper location, we took our boxes out of the wagon, and placed them on the ground. He bade us goeden dag, or farewell, cracked his long whip, and drove away, leaving us to our reflections. My wife sat down on one box, and I on another. The beautiful blue sky was above us, and the green grass beneath our feet. We looked at each other for a few moments, indulged in some reflections, and perhaps exchanged a few sentences; but it was no time for sentiment, and hence we were soon engaged in pitching our tent, and when that was accomplished8, we removed into it our trunks and bedding. All the other settlers who arrived with us were similarly engaged, and in a comparatively short time the somewhat extensive valley of that part of the Assagai Bush River, which was to be the site of our future village, presented a lively and picturesque9 appearance.”
Soon the spade, the plough, and the axe10 began their subduing11 work. Some of the beautiful grassy12 slopes were turned up. Small clearings were made in the bush. Frail13 huts with doors of matting and windows of calico began to arise. Lime was found, white-wash was applied14, and the huts began to “smile.” So did the waters of the stream when partially15 shorn of the bush-moustache by which, from time immemorial, they had been partially concealed16; the first crops were sown, and the work of civilisation17 began. There was a ruinous “wattle and daub” edifice18 which had been deserted19 by a Dutch Boer before the arrival of the settlers. This was converted into a church, town-hall, and hospital.
The yell of the Kafir and the whizzing assagai afterwards disturbed the peace of Salem, and at that time the settlers proved that, though on peaceful plans intent, they could bravely hold their own; but it was peaceful enough, and beautiful, when I first beheld21 it.
At the door of a moderately handsome residence—which had succeeded the wattle-and-daub style of thing—I was heartily22 welcomed by my friend and his amiable23 spouse24. Here I had the pleasure of enjoying a South African picnic.
A picnic is at all times interesting, doubly so when undertaken in peculiar circumstances. One of the peculiarities25 of this picnic was that the invitation to it was publicly given, and embraced the entire population. Another peculiarity26 was that the population, almost in its entirety, accepted the invitation. But there were still other peculiarities which will appear in the sequel.
The morning of the day fixed27 was bright and beautiful. This, indeed, was no peculiarity. Most of the mornings, days, and nights in that splendid region were of much the same stamp at that time. The spot fixed on for the scene of the picnic was about six miles from Salem, where a wild buffalo28 had been killed the week before.
The killing29 of this buffalo was an “event,” for that wild denizen30 of the African Bush had long ago retired31 before the rifle of the settler to safer retreats, and rarely returned to his old haunts. A band of buffaloes32, however, had apparently33 taken a fancy to revisit the home of their childhood at this time. There was nothing to prevent them, for, although the country is “settled,” the original “Bush” is in many places sufficiently34 extensive and impervious35 to afford safe shelter to the wildest of animals. At all events, a band of buffaloes did come to the neighbourhood of Salem, and there met with a farmer-Nimrod, who “picked off” one of their number. I turned aside, during one of my rides, to visit the head and horns, which lay near his house.
The place of rendezvous36 for those who dwelt in the village was an open space in front of the church. Here, at an early hour, there assembled numerous equestrians38, as well as vehicles of varied39 shape and character. I was mounted on a smart brown pony40 kindly41 lent by Mr Shaw, teacher of the flourishing school of Salem. My friend Caldecott bestrode a powerful steed suited to his size. When the gathering42 had reached considerable proportions, we started like an Eastern caravan43.
Among the cavaliers there were stalwart men and fair damsels—also little boys and girls, prancing44 in anxiety to get away. There were carts, and gigs, and buggies, or things that bore some resemblance to such vehicles, in which were the more sedate45 ones of the gathering; and there were great “Cape46 wagons47,” with fifteen or twenty oxen to each, containing whole families—from hale old “grannies” down to grannies’ weaknesses in the shape of healthy lumps of live lard clad in amazement48 and bibs. It was a truly grand procession, as, after toiling49 up the slope that leads from the valley of Salem, we debouched upon the wide plain, and assumed our relative positions—that is, the riders dashed away at speed, the carts and buggies, getting up steam, pushed on, and the oxen trailed along at their unalterable gait, so that, in a few minutes, the dense50 group spread into a moving mass which gradually drew itself out into an attenuated51 line, whereof the head ultimately became invisible to the tail.
My tall host led the way with enthusiastic vigour52. He was a hearty53, earnest man, who could turn quickly from the pleasant contemplation of the trivialities of life to the deep and serious consideration of the things that bear on the life to come.
One Sunday I rode over the plains with him to visit a native church in which it was his duty to conduct worship. The congregation was black and woolly-headed—Hottentots chiefly, I believe, though there may have been some Kafirs amongst them.
There is something very attractive to me in the bright, eager, childlike look of black men and women. The said look may be the genuine expression of feeling—it may be, for aught I can tell, the result of contrast between the dazzling whites of eyes and teeth, with liquid-black pupils and swarthy cheeks,—but that does not alter the fact that it is pleasant.
The Hottentot who translated my friend’s discourse54, sentence by sentence, was a fine specimen—I won’t say of his race, but of humanity. He was full of intelligence and fire; caught the preacher’s meaning instantly, riveted55 with his glittering eye the attention of his audience, and rattled56 out his words with a power that was most impressive, and with the interspersion57 of those indescribable “clicks” with which the native language abounds58.
But to return to the picnic.
As we advanced, groups and couples of cavaliers and carts and wagons joined the line of march from outlying farms, so that when we reached the rendezvous we must have formed a body of two hundred strong, or more.
The spot chosen was the summit of a woody knoll59, from which we could survey all the country round, and look down upon the river with its miles and miles of dense bush, in which the buffaloes had vainly fancied themselves free from the danger of human foes60.
Was there plenty of food at that picnic? I should think there was. South Africans do not live upon air, by any means—though air has a good deal to do with their living. These comely61 maidens62 and strapping63 boys had not been brought up on water-gruel. These powerful men and ruddy matrons, to say nothing of the aged7 and the juvenile64, would not have gone to that knoll on the plain without a prospect65 of “strong meat” of some sort. There were pies and joints66, buns and beef, cakes and coffee, tea and tongues, sugar and sandwiches, hams and hampers67, mounds68 of mealies, oceans of milk, and baskets of bread and butter. I’m not sure whether there were wines or spirits. I culpably69 forget. Probably there were not, for “Good Templars” are powerful in that region, and so is temperance.
Did we do justice to the viands70? Didn’t we? My notions of human capacity were enlarged that day. So was my own capacity—out of sympathy, coupled with the ride. But we did not linger over our food. Seated in groups near the margin71 of, and partly in, the bush, we refreshed ourselves in comparative silence. Then we grew noisy over our milk and tea. Some of us even got the length of singing and speech-making, but the younger portion of the band soon lost their appetites and dispersed—some to romp72, some to ramble73, others to engage in games.
A few of the more reckless among us extemporised a game of polo.
Most people know, though some may not, that this is a game played on horseback with a club and ball—a species of equestrian37 “hockey,” as it is styled in England, “shinty” in Scotland. To be well done it requires good and trained horses, a wide expanse of level country, and expert riders. Our state of preparation for the game may be understood when I say that we had indifferent and untrained horses, that the ground was very uneven74 and covered with huge ant-hills, while the riders were not expert—at least, not at polo.
We got sticks, however, and went at it. Half a dozen men cut and levelled several ant-hills, and marking off a square patch of ground, four of us—I won’t say who—were placed, one at each corner, while the ball, a football, was put in the middle of the square.
Our innocent horses stood quietly there till the signal was given to start. Then each cavalier essayed to reach the ball first. The sudden urging of the steeds to instant action seemed to confuse them. They did not spring, as they should have done like arrows from bows. One rider wildly kicked with his heels and shook his reins75. The horse turned round, as if in contempt, from the ball. Another applied his whip with vehemence76, but his horse only backed. A third shouted, having neither whip nor spur, and brought his polo-stick savagely77 down on his animal’s flank, but it plunged79 and reared. The only horse that behaved well was that of a gallant80 youth who wore spurs. A dig from these sent him into the field. He reached the ball, made a glorious blow at it, and hit the terrestrial ball by mistake. Before the mistake could be rectified81 three of the other players were up, flourishing their long clubs in reckless eagerness; the fourth rode into them; the horses then lost patience and refused obedience82 to orders—no wonder, for one club, aimed at the ball, fell on a horse’s shins, while another saluted83 a horse’s ear. Presently the ball spurted84 out from the midst of us; the horses scattered85, and one was seen to rise on its hind-legs. Immediately thereafter one of the players—I won’t say which—was on the ground and his horse was careering over the plain! Regardless of this the other three charged, met in the shock of conflict; clubs met clubs, and ears, and shins—but not the ball—until finally an accidental kick, from one of the horses I think, sent it towards the boundary at a considerable distance from the players.
Then it was that the power of spurs became conspicuously86 apparent. While two of the champions backed and reared, the gallant youth with the armed heels made a vigorous rush at the ball, miraculously87 hit it, and triumphantly88 won the game.
On the whole it was a failure in one sense, but a great success in another, inasmuch as it afforded immense amusement to the spectators, and pleasant excitement as well as exercise to the performers.
It must not be supposed, however, that the energies of the whole picnic were concentrated on polo. The party, as I have said, had broken up into groups, one of which played hide-and-seek among the bushes on the knoll, while another engaged in a game which involved sitting in a circle, changing places, frequent collisions, constant mistakes on the part of the ignorant, and shouts of laughter, with rectifying89 advice on the part of the knowing.
All this time the sun was glowing as only a South African summer sun can glow, in a cloudless sky, and it was not until that sun had become red in the face, and sunk far down into the west, that the panting, but far from exhausted90 revellers saddled up and inspanned, and began to quit the scene.
Then it was, as my friend and I stood on the bush-topped knoll, that the magnificence of our picnic fully91 impressed us, for, as we surveyed the long line of riders, and trundling carts, and gigs, and carriages, and heavy Cape wagons with their creeping teams winding92 over the plain, the head of the column was seen almost on the horizon before the rear-guard had left the scene of our festivities. This was altogether one of the pleasantest days I had spent in the colony; the people were so hearty and vigorous, so varied in appearance, character, and age, so full of life and fun and good-will.
But it is not always in the sunshine that the good people of Salem enjoy themselves. The hunters among them occasionally go out shooting at night with the aid of a dark lantern, and the wretched creature which they pursue on such occasions is called a spring-hare. It seems a mixture of the hare and the kangaroo—its size and aspect being those of the former animal, while its long hind-legs and its action in springing resemble the latter. In running it does not use its fore20 legs, but bounds like the kangaroo.
Never having engaged in night-sporting—save in dreams—I agreed to accompany two Salem Nimrods on a hunt after spring-hares.
We went into the fields. That is all I can vouch93 for. It happened to be so dark that we might as well have been groping about in a coal-pit. My companions, however, knew the ground, which was fortunate, for walking over a rugged94 surface in the dark is not only confusing, but trying to the nerves, to say nothing of the temper. I followed faithfully and “close to heel,” like a well-trained dog.
“This way, Sir; mind the ditch.”
“Where? ah! all ri–ight!”
The last syllable95 was shot out of me like a bullet as I plunged into the ditch.
The Nimrod who carried the lantern opened the slide for a moment, revealed the rugged nature of the ground, and closed it when I had risen.
“It’s better farther on,” he said, encouragingly.
“Is it? Ah, that’s well.”
We came to a piece of ground which my feet and legs told me was covered with long rough grass and occasional bushes. Over this we stumbled, and here the rays of the lantern were directed far in advance of us, so as to sweep slowly round, bringing bushes, and grassy tufts, and stumps96, and clods, into spectral97 view for a moment as the focus of light moved on.
“We never see their bodies,” said the lantern-bearer, slowly, as he peered earnestly in front, “we only see the sparkle of one eye when the light falls on it, and—then—we—fire—at—there, that’s one! Look, don’t you see his eye? Fire, Sir, fire!”
I raised my gun, and looked eagerly with all my eyes, but saw nothing. Never having been in the habit of firing at nothing, I hesitated.
“Ah, he’s gone! Never mind, we’ll soon see another.”
We stumbled on again. The surrounding gloom depressed98 me, but I revived under the influence of one or two false alarms, and a severe plunge78 into a deepish hole.
“There he is again, quite near,” whispered my light-bearer.
“Aim for the eye,” whispered the other.
The whispering, and intense silence that followed, coupled with the gloom, made me feel guilty. I saw nothing, but tried so hard to do so that I persuaded myself that I did, and attempted to aim.
“The sights of the gun are invisible,” I whispered somewhat testily99.
Without a word the lantern was raised until the light glittered on the barrels. Then I saw nothing whatever except the gun! In sheer desperation I pulled the trigger. The tremendous appearance in the dark of the sheet of flame that belched100 forth101, and the crash of the report in the silent night, gave me quite new ideas as to firearms.
“You’ve missed,” said the light-bearer.
As I had fired at nothing I felt inclined to reply that I had not—but refrained.
Again we stumbled on, and I began to grow melancholy102, when another “there he goes” brought me to the “ready,” with eager eyes.
I saw it clearly enough this time. A diamond was sparkling in the blackness before me. I aimed and fired. There was a squeal103 and a rush. Instantly my friends dashed off in wild pursuit and I stood listening, not daring to move for fear of ditches. The sounds of leaping, stumbling, and crashing came to me on the night air for a few minutes; then my friends returned with the light, and with a poor little spring-hare’s lifeless and long-hind-legged body.
With this trophy104 I returned home, resolved never more to go hunting at night.
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