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There
was
no
longer
any
doubt
about
the
matter
,
which
for
my
own
part
I
confess
perfectly
appalled
me
.
There
he
sat
,
the
dead
man
,
whose
directions
,
written
some
ten
generations
ago
,
had
led
us
to
this
spot
.
Here
in
my
own
hand
was
the
rude
pen
with
which
he
had
written
them
,
and
about
his
neck
hung
the
crucifix
that
his
dying
lips
had
kissed
.
Gazing
at
him
,
my
imagination
could
reconstruct
the
last
scene
of
the
drama
,
the
traveller
dying
of
cold
and
starvation
,
yet
striving
to
convey
to
the
world
the
great
secret
which
he
had
discovered
:
--
the
awful
loneliness
of
his
death
,
of
which
the
evidence
sat
before
us
.
It
even
seemed
to
me
that
I
could
trace
in
his
strongly-marked
features
a
likeness
to
those
of
my
poor
friend
Silvestre
his
descendant
,
who
had
died
twenty
years
before
in
my
arms
,
but
perhaps
that
was
fancy
.
At
any
rate
,
there
he
sat
,
a
sad
memento
of
the
fate
that
so
often
overtakes
those
who
would
penetrate
into
the
unknown
;
and
there
doubtless
he
will
still
sit
,
crowned
with
the
dread
majesty
of
death
,
for
centuries
yet
unborn
,
to
startle
the
eyes
of
wanderers
like
ourselves
,
if
ever
any
such
should
come
again
to
invade
his
loneliness
.
The
thing
overpowered
us
,
already
almost
perished
as
we
were
with
cold
and
hunger
.
"
Let
us
go
,
"
said
Sir
Henry
in
a
low
voice
;
"
stay
,
we
will
give
him
a
companion
,
"
and
lifting
up
the
dead
body
of
the
Hottentot
Ventvögel
,
he
placed
it
near
to
that
of
the
old
Dom
.
Then
he
stooped
,
and
with
a
jerk
broke
the
rotten
string
of
the
crucifix
which
hung
round
da
Silvestra
's
neck
,
for
his
fingers
were
too
cold
to
attempt
to
unfasten
it
.
I
believe
that
he
has
it
still
.
I
took
the
bone
pen
,
and
it
is
before
me
as
I
write
--
sometimes
I
use
it
to
sign
my
name
.
Then
leaving
these
two
,
the
proud
white
man
of
a
past
age
,
and
the
poor
Hottentot
,
to
keep
their
eternal
vigil
in
the
midst
of
the
eternal
snows
,
we
crept
out
of
the
cave
into
the
welcome
sunshine
and
resumed
our
path
,
wondering
in
our
hearts
how
many
hours
it
would
be
before
we
were
even
as
they
are
.
When
we
had
walked
about
half
a
mile
we
came
to
the
edge
of
the
plateau
,
for
the
nipple
of
the
mountain
does
not
rise
out
of
its
exact
centre
,
though
from
the
desert
side
it
had
seemed
to
do
so
.
What
lay
below
us
we
could
not
see
,
for
the
landscape
was
wreathed
in
billows
of
morning
fog
.
Presently
,
however
,
the
higher
layers
of
mist
cleared
a
little
,
and
revealed
,
at
the
end
of
a
long
slope
of
snow
,
a
patch
of
green
grass
,
some
five
hundred
yards
beneath
us
,
through
which
a
stream
was
running
.
Nor
was
this
all
.
By
the
stream
,
basking
in
the
bright
sun
,
stood
and
lay
a
group
of
from
ten
to
fifteen
large
antelopes
--
at
that
distance
we
could
not
see
of
what
species
.
The
sight
filled
us
with
an
unreasoning
joy
.
If
only
we
could
get
it
,
there
was
food
in
plenty
.
But
the
question
was
how
to
do
so
.
The
beasts
were
fully
six
hundred
yards
off
,
a
very
long
shot
,
and
one
not
to
be
depended
on
when
our
lives
hung
on
the
results
.
Rapidly
we
discussed
the
advisability
of
trying
to
stalk
the
game
,
but
in
the
end
dismissed
it
reluctantly
.
To
begin
with
,
the
wind
was
not
favourable
,
and
further
,
we
must
certainly
be
perceived
,
however
careful
we
were
,
against
the
blinding
background
of
snow
,
which
we
should
be
obliged
to
traverse
.
"
Well
,
we
must
have
a
try
from
where
we
are
,
"
said
Sir
Henry
.
"
Which
shall
it
be
,
Quatermain
,
the
repeating
rifles
or
the
expresses
?
"
Here
again
was
a
question
.
The
Winchester
repeaters
--
of
which
we
had
two
,
Umbopa
carrying
poor
Ventvögel
's
as
well
as
his
own
--
were
sighted
up
to
a
thousand
yards
,
whereas
the
expresses
were
only
sighted
to
three
hundred
and
fifty
,
beyond
which
distance
shooting
with
them
was
more
or
less
guess-work
.
On
the
other
hand
,
if
they
did
hit
,
the
express
bullets
,
being
"
expanding
,
"
were
much
more
likely
to
bring
the
game
down
.
