must leave the wilderness and go to another country across the water, I
know not where, that country whence the Englishmen come.

"Twice he has started to go, and I with him and his daughter Juanna, my
mistress, who is named the Shepherdess of Heaven by the black people,
because they think that she has the gift of foretelling rain. But once
Mavoom stopped in a town, at Durban in Natal, and getting drunk he
gambled away all his money in a month, and once he lost it in a river,
the boat being overset by a river-horse and the ivory and gold sinking
out of sight. Still, the last time that he started he left his daughter,
the Shepherdess, at Durban, and there she stayed for three years
learning those things that the white women know, for she is very clever,
as clever as she is beautiful and good. Now, for nearly two years she
has been back at the Settlement, for she came to Delagoa Bay in a ship,
and I with her, and Mavoom met us.

"But one month gone my mistress the Shepherdess spoke to her father
Mavoom, telling him that she wearied of their lonely life in the
wilderness and wished to sail across the waters to the land which is
called Home. He listened to her, for Mavoom loves his daughter, and said
that it should be so. But he said this also: that first he would go on
a trading journey up the river to buy a store of ivory of which he knew.
Now she was against this, saying, 'Let us start at once, we have tempted
chance too long, and once again we are rich. Let us go to Natal and pass
over the seas.'

"Still he would not listen, for he is a headstrong man. So on the morrow
he started to search for the store of ivory, and the lady Juanna his
daughter wept, for though she is fearless, it was not fitting that she
should be left thus alone; also she hated to be apart from her father,