There she lay down and died.

Well, she had done her work, and there was no other horse in the country that could have caught that boat.
An hour or so later Hans came in flogging the chestnut, and here I may add that both it and the roan recovered.

Indeed I rode them for many years, until they were quite old.

When I had eaten, or tried to eat something and rested awhile, I went to the bank, succeeded in explaining the state of the case to the manager, and after some difficulty, for gold was not very plentiful in Port Elizabeth, procured three hundred pounds in sovereigns.

For the other two he gave me a bill upon some agent in Delagoa Bay, together with a letter of recommendation to him and the Portuguese governor, who, it appeared, was in debt to their establishment.