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As
for
Good
,
he
rose
and
wrung
his
hands
over
the
brave
man
who
had
given
his
life
to
save
him
,
and
,
though
I
am
an
old
hand
,
I
felt
a
lump
grow
in
my
throat
.
Umbopa
stood
contemplating
the
huge
dead
elephant
and
the
mangled
remains
of
poor
Khiva
.
"
Ah
,
well
,
"
he
said
presently
,
"
he
is
dead
,
but
he
died
like
a
man
!
"
We
had
killed
nine
elephants
,
and
it
took
us
two
days
to
cut
out
the
tusks
,
and
having
brought
them
into
camp
,
to
bury
them
carefully
in
the
sand
under
a
large
tree
,
which
made
a
conspicuous
mark
for
miles
round
.
It
was
a
wonderfully
fine
lot
of
ivory
.
I
never
saw
a
better
,
averaging
as
it
did
between
forty
and
fifty
pounds
a
tusk
.
The
tusks
of
the
great
bull
that
killed
poor
Khiva
scaled
one
hundred
and
seventy
pounds
the
pair
,
so
nearly
as
we
could
judge
.
As
for
Khiva
himself
,
we
buried
what
remained
of
him
in
an
ant-bear
hole
,
together
with
an
assegai
to
protect
himself
with
on
his
journey
to
a
better
world
.
On
the
third
day
we
marched
again
,
hoping
that
we
might
live
to
return
to
dig
up
our
buried
ivory
,
and
in
due
course
,
after
a
long
and
wearisome
tramp
,
and
many
adventures
which
I
have
not
space
to
detail
,
we
reached
Sitanda
's
Kraal
,
near
the
Lukanga
River
,
the
real
starting-point
of
our
expedition
.
Very
well
do
I
recollect
our
arrival
at
that
place
.
To
the
right
was
a
scattered
native
settlement
with
a
few
stone
cattle
kraals
and
some
cultivated
lands
down
by
the
water
,
where
these
savages
grew
their
scanty
supply
of
grain
,
and
beyond
it
stretched
great
tracts
of
waving
"
veld
"
covered
with
tall
grass
,
over
which
herds
of
the
smaller
game
were
wandering
.
To
the
left
lay
the
vast
desert
.
This
spot
appears
to
be
the
outpost
of
the
fertile
country
,
and
it
would
be
difficult
to
say
to
what
natural
causes
such
an
abrupt
change
in
the
character
of
the
soil
is
due
.
But
so
it
is
.
Just
below
our
encampment
flowed
a
little
stream
,
on
the
farther
side
of
which
is
a
stony
slope
,
the
same
down
which
,
twenty
years
before
,
I
had
seen
poor
Silvestre
creeping
back
after
his
attempt
to
reach
Solomon
's
Mines
,
and
beyond
that
slope
begins
the
waterless
desert
,
covered
with
a
species
of
karoo
shrub
.
It
was
evening
when
we
pitched
our
camp
,
and
the
great
ball
of
the
sun
was
sinking
into
the
desert
,
sending
glorious
rays
of
many-coloured
light
flying
all
over
its
vast
expanse
.
Leaving
Good
to
superintend
the
arrangement
of
our
little
camp
,
I
took
Sir
Henry
with
me
,
and
walking
to
the
top
of
the
slope
opposite
,
we
gazed
across
the
desert
.
The
air
was
very
clear
,
and
far
,
far
away
I
could
distinguish
the
faint
blue
outlines
,
here
and
there
capped
with
white
,
of
the
Suliman
Berg
.
"
There
,
"
I
said
,
"
there
is
the
wall
round
Solomon
's
Mines
,
but
God
knows
if
we
shall
ever
climb
it
.
"
"
My
brother
should
be
there
,
and
if
he
is
,
I
shall
reach
him
somehow
,
"
said
Sir
Henry
,
in
that
tone
of
quiet
confidence
which
marked
the
man
.
"
I
hope
so
,
"
I
answered
,
and
turned
to
go
back
to
the
camp
,
when
I
saw
that
we
were
not
alone
.
Behind
us
,
also
gazing
earnestly
towards
the
far-off
mountains
,
stood
the
great
Kafir
Umbopa
.
The
Zulu
spoke
when
he
saw
that
I
had
observed
him
,
addressing
Sir
Henry
,
to
whom
he
had
attached
himself
.
