12/31 Soon I was sure, and advancing with outstretched hand, said: "Good-day, Mynheer Piet Retief. Who would have thought that we who parted so far away and so long ago would live to meet among the Zulus ?" He stared at me. The little Englishman, Allan Quatermain, who shot the geese down in the Old Colony. Well, I should not be surprised, for the man you beat in that match told me that you were travelling in these parts. Only I understood him to say that the Zulus had killed you." "If you mean Hernan Pereira," I answered, "where did you meet him ?" "Why, down by the Tugela there, in a bad way. |