I got up and went to the outhouse where my Kaffir slept.

I woke him up and asked him where the Hottentot was.

"Oh, he is gone," he replied, "to go and fetch his things to go with the baas." I at once felt that there was something wrong, and went and called my men.

I told them to saddle-up, and went off with my staff to the farm of Mr.Schoeman on the Valsch River, to the east of Bothaville.
On the following morning before daybreak, a force of two hundred English stormed the farm of Commandant Nel.

They had come to take me prisoner.
From Schoeman's farm I went to the Rhenoster River and found Captain Scheepers there.