Half a minute served to answer them all in the affirmative.

There was neither impossibility nor improbability in any of the three propositions.

It was clear that the thing could be done, and without difficulty.
A new hope sprang up in the heart of the field-cornet.

Once more his countenance became radiant with joy.
He communicated his thoughts both to the Bushman and "Bush-boys"-- all of whom highly approved of the idea, and only wondered that none of them had thought of it before.
And now the question arose, as to how the quaggas were to be captured.
This was the first point to be settled; and the four,--Von Bloom himself, Hans, Hendrik, and Swartboy,--sat deliberately down to concoct some plan of effecting this object.
Of course they could do nothing just then, and the drove that had come to drink was allowed to depart peacefully.

The hunters knew they would return on the morrow about the same hour; and it was towards their return that the thought of all were bent.
Hendrik advised "creasing," which means sending a bullet through the upper part of the neck near the withers, and by this means a quagga can be knocked over and captured.