as swerve, they poured such a deadly cross-fire upon the compact onrushing mass that in a second the...

silver box from the inside pocket in which it was kept. Removing the chamois leather covering, which...

A sounding whack across the ear with the haft of an assegai choked the words in his throat. He stood...

approaching death.“He is dying!” cried several, bending over the victim. “Hau! A man like Vudana sho...

Chapter Forty Four.Inferno.For the first forty yards the roof of the cave was so low that they had t...

sides were broken up into a grand panorama of soaring krantzes and wild rocky gorges, which latter, ...

too quick for him. Jerking back his horse’s head and driving in both spurs, he causes the animal to ...

Suddenly one of the horses stumbled heavily, then fell. All his driver’s efforts to raise him were u...

dead when last seen by him. He might be alive still, though held a prisoner. Against this view was u...

“Anything rather than that devil of a scramble again.”“The time to talk of getting out is not yet,” ...

A weird, far-away chorus floats upon the stillness, now rising, now falling. Its boding import there...

Mrs Hoste in astonishment.“No. Not at present, anyway. I’ve no quarrel with Jack Kafir; rather the r...

“Here is food for you, Umlúngu,” said one of them. “And now you can rest until—until you are wanted....

sealed. They would have been hemmed in completely. Happily, however, when Eustace uttered his warnin...

Their escape had indeed been a narrow one. It was only late in the afternoon that Hoste had, by chan...

specimen of humanity to call forth such an intensity of love in so refined and beautiful a creature ...

a different nature to those entertained by his cousin.“We can move the rest of the stock to Swaanepo...

“even the Home of the Immortal Serpents, which none can find save those who are beloved of the spiri...

For a minute he seemed to have reason to congratulate himself on this idea. The rigid stony horror d...

state of the canvas.”“Oh! A dismal jest and worthy the day and the hour,” rejoined the other, liftin...