A Night-Bivouac under the mimosa-bushes of the Zwartkops River. The Cape2-waggons3 are drawn5 up in various comfortable nooks; the oxen are turned loose to graze; camp-fires are kindled6. Round these men and women group themselves very much as they do in ordinary society. Classes keep by themselves, not because one class wishes to exclude the other, but because habits, sympathies, interests, and circumstances draw like to like. The ruddy glare of the camp-fires contrasts pleasantly with the cold light of the moon, which casts into deepest shadow the wild recesses7 of bush and brake, inducing many a furtive8 glance from the more timid of the settlers, who see an elephant, a buffalo9, or a Cape “tiger” in every bank and stump10 and stone. Their suspicions are not so wild as one might suppose, for the neighbouring jungle, called the Addo Bush, swarms11 with these and other wild animals.
The distance travelled on this first day was not great; the travellers were not much fatigued12, but were greatly excited by novelty, which rendered them wakeful. If one had gone round to the numerous fires and played eavesdropper13, what eager discussion on the new land he would have heard; what anxious speculations14; what sanguine15 hopes; what noble plans; what ridiculous ideas; what mad anticipations—for all were hopeful and enthusiastic.
Round one of these fires was assembled the family and retainers of our Highland16 farmer, Kenneth McTavish, among whom were Sandy Black and Jerry Goldboy. They had been joined by Charlie Considine, who felt drawn somewhat to Sandy. Quite close to these, round another fire, were grouped the three bachelor brothers Skyd, with their friend Dobson. At another, within earshot of these, were Edwin Brook17 and his wife, his daughter Gertrude, Scholtz and his wife, Junkie, George Dally18, and Stephen Orpin, with bluff19 Hans Marais, who had somehow got acquainted with the Brook family, and seemed to prefer their society to that of any other.
Down in a hollow under a thick spreading mimosa bush was the noisiest fire of all, for there were assembled some of the natives belonging to the waggons of Hans and Jan Smit. These carried on an uproarious discussion of some sort, appealing frequently to our friend Ruyter the Hottentot, who appeared to be regarded by them as an umpire or an oracle20. The Hottentot race is a very inferior one, both mentally and physically21, but there are among them individuals who rise much above the ordinary level. Ruyter was one of these. He had indeed the sallow visage, high cheek-bones, and dots of curly wool scattered22 thinly over his head, peculiar23 to his race, but his countenance24 was unusually intelligent, his frame well made and very powerful, and his expression good. He entered heartily25 into the fun of attempting to teach the Hottentot klick to some of the younger men among the emigrants26, who were attracted to his fire by the shouts of laughter in which the swarthy slaves and others indulged. Abdul Jemalee, the Malay slave, was there; also Booby the Bushman—the former grave and silent, almost sad; the latter conducting himself like a monkey—to which animal he seemed closely related—and evoking27 shouts of laughter from a few youths, for whose special benefit he kept in the background and mimicked28 every one else.
“What a noisy set they are over there!” observed Edwin Brook, who had for some time been quietly contemplating29 the energetic George Dally, as he performed the duties of cook and waiter to his party.
“They are, sir,” replied Dally, “like niggers in general, fond of showing their white teeth.”
“Come, Gertie, your mother can spare you now; let’s go over and listen to them.”
“Oh!” she exclaimed, with a little scream, as a thorn full five inches long gave her a wicked probe on the left shoulder.
“It is only Kafirs who can run against mimosa thorns with impunity,” said the handsome young Dutchman.
Gertie laughed, remarked that mimosa thorns, like South African gentlemen, were unusually long and sharp, and passed on.
Hans sat down on the ground, filled his large pipe, and gazed dreamily into the fire, with something of the sensation of a hunter when he makes a bad shot.
“Now then, Goliath,” said the ever busy George Dally; “move your long legs out o’ that. Don’t you see the pot’s about to bile over?”
Hans quietly obeyed.
“If I chanced to be alongside o’ that Tottie over there just now,” continued George, “I’d be inclined to stop his noise with a rap on his spotted33 pate34.”
“You’d have to make it a heavy rap, then, to produce any effect,” said Hans, taking a long draw at his pipe, “for he belongs to a hard-headed race.”
The truth of the young farmer’s words was verified just then in a way that was alarming as well as unexpected.
One of the heavy waggons, which had been delayed behind the others by some trifling36 accident, came lumbering37 up just as Hans spoke38. There was a softish sandy spot in advance of it, into which one of the front wheels plunged39. The tilt40 caught on part of the waggon4 to which Ruyter belonged. To prevent damage the active Hottentot sprang forward. In doing so he tripped and fell. At the same instant a tremendous crack of the whip and a shout produced a wrench41 at the waggon, the hind35 wheel of which went over Ruyter’s head and crushed it into the ground!
A roar of consternation42 followed, and several eager hands carefully dug out the poor man’s head. To the surprise of all, the five-ton waggon had not flattened43 it! The sand was so soft that it had not been squeezed at all—at least to any damaging extent,—a round stone having opportunely44 taken much of the pressure on itself, so that the Hottentot soon revived, and, beyond a headache, was little the worse of the accident. He returned to his place at the fire, but did not resume his part in the discussions, which were continued as noisily as before.
In strong contrast with the other groups were those of the Dutch-African boers who had brought the waggons to the Bay. Most of them were men of colossal45 stature46. They sat apart, smoking their huge pipes in silent complacency and comfort, amused a little at the scenes going on around them, but apparently47 disinclined to trouble themselves about anything in particular.
Supper produced a lull48 in the general hum of conversation, but when pipes were lit the storm revived and continued far into the night. At last symptoms of weariness appeared, and people began to make arrangements for going to rest.
Charlie Considine and Hans Marais, now become inseparable comrades, cleared and levelled the ground under a mimosa-bush, and, spreading their kaross thereon, lay down to sleep. George Dally, being an adaptable50 man, looked at the old campaigners for a few minutes, and then imitated their example. Little Jerry Goldboy, being naturally a nervous creature, and having his imagination filled with snakes, scorpions51, tarantulas, etcetera, would fain have slept in one of the waggons above the baggage—as did many of the women and children—if he had not been laughed out of his desire by Dally, and induced to spread his couch manfully on the bare ground.
It must not be supposed, however, that Jerry, although timid, was cowardly. On the contrary, he was bold as a lion. He could not control his sensitively-strung nervous system, but instead of running away, like the coward, he was prone53 to rush furiously at whatever startled him, and grapple with it.
Some families pitched their tents, others, deeming curtains a needless luxury in such magnificent weather, contented54 themselves with the shelter of the bushes.
Meanwhile the Hottentot attendants replenished55 the fires, while the boers unslung their huge guns and placed them so as to be handy; for, although elephants and lions were not nearly so numerous as they once had been in that particular locality, there was still sufficient possibility of their presence, as well as of other nocturnal wanderers in the African wilds, to render such precaution necessary. The whole scene was most romantic, especially in the eyes of those who thus bivouacked for the first time in the wilderness56. To them the great waggons; the gigantic Cape-oxen—which appeared to have been created expressly to match the waggons as well as to carry their own ponderous57 horns; the wild-looking Hottentots and Bushmen; the big phlegmatic58 Dutchmen; the bristling59 thorns of the mimosas, cropping out of comparative darkness; the varied groups of emigrants; the weird60 forms of the clumps61 of cactus62, aloes, euphorbias, and other strange plants, lit up by the fitful glare of the camp-fires, and canopied63 by the star-spangled depths of a southern sky—all seemed to them the unbelievable creations of a wild vision.
Poor Jerry Goldboy, however, had sufficient faith in the reality of the vision to increase his nervous condition considerably64, and he resolved to lie down with his “arms handy.” These arms consisted of a flint-lock blunderbuss, an heirloom in his father’s family, and a bowie-knife, which had been presented to him by an American cousin on his leaving England. Twice during that day’s march had the blunderbuss exploded owing to its owner’s inexperience in fire-arms. Fortunately no harm had been done, the muzzle65 on each occasion having been pointed66 to the sky, but the ire of the Dutch driver in front of Jerry had been aroused, and he was forbidden to reload the piece. Now, however, observing the preparations above referred to, he felt it to be his duty to prepare for the worst, and quietly loaded his bell-mouthed weapon with a heavy charge of buckshot.
“What’s that you’re after, boy?” asked George Dally, who was making some final arrangements at the fire, before lying down for the night.
“Oh, nothing,” replied Jerry, with a start, for he had thought himself unobserved, “only seein’ to my gun before turnin’ in.”
“That’s right,” said George. “Double-load it. Nothin’ like bein’ ready for whatever may turn up in a wild country like this. Why, I once knew a man named Snip67 who said he had been attacked one night in South America by a sarpint full forty feet long, and who saved his life by means of a blunderbuss, though he didn’t fire at the reptile68 at all.”
“Indeed, how was that?” asked Jerry.
“Why, just because his weapon was bell-mouthed an’ loaded a’most to the muzzle. You see, the poor fellow was awoke out of a deep sleep and couldn’t well see, so that instead o’ firin’ at the brute69, he fired his blunderbuss about ten yards to one side of it, but the shot scattered so powerfully that one o’ the outside bullets hit a stone, glanced off, and caught the sarpint in the eye, and though it failed to kill the brute on the spot, the wound gave it such pain that it stood up on its tail and wriggled70 in agony for full five minutes, sending broken twigs71 and dry leaves flying about like a whirlwind, so Snip he jumped up, dropped his weapon, an’ bolted. He never returned to the encampment, and never saw the big snake or his blunderbuss again.”
“What a pity! then he lost it?” said Jerry, looking with some anxiety at a decayed branch, to which the flickering72 flame gave apparent motion.
“Yes, he lost the blunderbuss, but he saved his life,” replied Dally, as he lay down near his little friend and drew his blanket over him. “You’d better put the gun between us, my boy, to be handy to both—an’ if anything comes, the one of us that wakes first can lay hold of it and fire.”
There was, we need scarcely observe, a strong spice of wickedness in George. If he had suggested a lion, or even an elephant, there would have been something definite for poor Jerry’s anxious mind to lay hold of and try to reason down and defy, but that dreadful “anything” that might come, gave him nothing to hold by. It threw the whole zoological ferocities of South Africa open to his unanchored imagination, and for a long time banished73 sleep from his eyes.
He allowed the blunderbuss to remain as his friend had placed it, and hugged the naked bowie-knife to his breast. In addition to these weapons he had provided himself with a heavy piece of wood, something like the exaggerated truncheon of a policeman, for the purpose of killing74 snakes, should any such venture near his couch.
The wild shrieks76 of laughter at the neighbouring Hottentot fire helped to increase Jerry’s wakefulness, and when this at last lulled77, the irritation78 was kept up by the squalling of Master Junkie, whose tent was about three feet distant from Jerry’s pillow, and who kept up a vicious piping just in proportion to the earnestness of Mrs Scholtz’s attempts to calm him.
At last, however, the child’s lamentations ceased, and there broke upon the night air a sweet sound which stilled the merriment of the natives. It was the mellow79 voice of Stephen Orpin singing a hymn80 of praise, with a number of like-minded emigrants, before retiring to rest. Doubtless some of those who had already retired81, and lay, perchance, watching the stars and thinking dreamily of home, were led naturally by the sweet hymn to think of the home in the “better land,” which might possibly be nearer to some of them than the old home they had left for ever—ay, even than the new “locations” to which they were bound.
But, whatever the thoughts suggested, the whole camp soon afterwards sank into repose82. Tent-doors were drawn and curtains of waggon-tilts let down. The boers, sticking their big pipes in their hatbands, wrapped themselves in greatcoats, and, regardless of snake or scorpion52, stretched their limbs on the bare ground, while Hottentots, negroes, and Bushmen, rolling themselves in sheepskin karosses, lay coiled up like balls with their feet to the fire. Only once was the camp a little disturbed, during the early part of the night, by the mournful howl of a distant hyena83. It was the first that the newcomers had heard, and most of those who were awake raised themselves on their elbows eagerly to listen.
Jerry was just dropping into slumber84 at the time. He sat bolt upright on hearing the cry, and when it was repeated he made a wild grasp at the blunderbuss, but Dally was beforehand. He caught up the weapon, and this probably saved an explosion.
Jerry obeyed, and his nose soon told that he had reached the land of dreams.
Dally then quietly drew the charge of shot, but left the powder and laid the piece in its former position. Turning over with the sigh of one whose active duties for the day have been completed, he then went to sleep.
Gradually the fires burned low, and gave out such flickering uncertain light, when an occasional flame leaped up ever and anon, that to unaccustomed eyes it might have seemed as though snakes were crawling everywhere, and Jerry Goldboy, had he been awake, would have beheld85 a complete menagerie in imagination. But Jerry was now in blessed oblivion.
When things were in this condition, that incomprehensible subtlety86, the brain of Junkie Brook—or something else—so acted as to cause the urchin87 to give vent1 to a stentorian88 yell. Strong though it was, it did not penetrate89 far through the canvas tent, but being, as we have said, within a few feet of Jerry’s ear, it sounded to that unhappy man like the united, and as yet unknown, shriek75 of all the elephants and buffaloes90 in Kafirland.
Starting up with a sharp cry he stretched out his hand towards the blunderbuss, but drew it back with a thrill of horror. A huge black snake lay in its place!
To seize his truncheon was the act of a moment. The next, down it came with stunning91 violence on the snake. The reptile instantly exploded with a bellowing92 roar of smoke and flame, which roused the whole camp.
“Blockhead! what d’you mean by that?” growled93 George Dally, turning round sleepily, but without rising, for he was well aware of the cause of the confusion.
Jerry shrank within himself like a guilty thing caught in the act, and glanced uneasily round to ascertain94 how much of death and destruction had been dealt out. Relieved somewhat to see no one writhing95 in blood, he arose, and, in much confusion, replied to the numerous eager queries96 as to what he had fired at. When the true state of affairs became manifest, most of the Dutchmen, who had been active enough when aroused by supposed danger, sauntered back to their couches with a good-natured chuckle97; the settlers who had “turned out” growled or chaffed, according to temperament98, as they followed suit, and the natives spent half an hour in uproarious merriment over Booby’s dramatic representation of the whole incident, which he performed with graphic99 power and much embellishment.
Thereafter the camp sank once more into repose, and rested in peace till morning.
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buffalo
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