Part 5 (1/2)

”I have told him that you will be a ht”

Thattaken a cup of tea with his good sister, and enjoyed a little further conversation, left his young _protege_ with her, and returned to where his waggon and folloere encao Finding, however, that it would be orth his while to proceed to D'Urban, he the following day set off for that town, to dispose of the produce of his hunting, and to procure fresh goods for his next journey According to his proood rifle and stock of a him authority to procure a further supply of powder and shot when that was exhausted

Lionel was soon perfectly at home with Mistress Jansen He showed an aly obeyed her, but at the sae habits and custo as he was, he showed a fearless and independent spirit, but she endeavoured by kind and judicious treatood order

He paid alht his lessons; but Mistress Jansen took upon herself to give hiious truth, of which very naturally he was totally ignorant He had no idea that there was a God in heaven, or how the world had been formed, or of a future state, and it was some time before he could conorance of as right and wrong Had he been older, the task of instructing him would have been more difficult, but as it was, his h, however, to receive the iained knowledge hialeesu, who had built a hut on the nearest piece of wild land he could find to the town Here he lived with the independence of a Zulu chief and gentle to household affairs of a very prih the neighbourhood, and never failed to obtain an aent of Hendricks also was always ready to make advances on the skins of the animals and the feathers of the birds he shot, which afforded hih he listened to what Lionel had to say, he had always a ready answer to excuse hi his advice At the salad to see him whenever he would come to pay hie of the Zulu language, which there would have been a risk of his forgetting while he was acquiring that of English

When his guardian returned froreatly surprised at his proficiency, not only in speaking, but in general knowledge

”If you continue as you have begun, Lionel, you will soon be able to accompany me on my journeys, and make yourself very useful in a variety of ways,” he said

”Then I'll o with you as soon as you will take me, and learn how to shoot lions and elephants, and Zulus too, if they try to treat us as they did the people in Mangaleesu's kraal”

Lionel had still need of further religious instruction, as his last reive it by teaching hiood to them that hate us, and to pray for them which despitefully use and persecute us”

CHAPTER FOUR

A JOURNEY NORTHWARD

What the camel is in Northern Africa--the shi+p of the desert--so on in the southern part of the dark continent It e, deeply ladenwaves of the ocean

Some time had passed, not reckoned by months only, but by years, since the events narrated in the previous chapters occurred, when one of those lued by a span of fourteen sturdy oxen, was rolling along through the eastern part of Natal towards the Zulu border

A short distance ahead rode our old friend Hendricks the hunter, scarcely changed since we first knew hirizzled, and that here and there a wrinkle had deepened on his open countenance Occasionally a shade of melancholy passed over it, as he spoke to a coht, active little horse

”It was His ho rules all things, Lionel, to take her; but I would rather you had re care, instead of coh life you will have to lead with me But she has done you justice You are better fitted h, than I reat service to olo, or certainly on the rest of our Kaffir and Hottentot servants”

”Thank you, uncle, for your good opinion of me,” answered Lionel, who had learnt to call his kind protectress, Mrs Jansen, by the name of aunt, and very naturally in consequence addressed her brother, the hunter, as uncle ”I will do ratitude to you, and to Aunt Susannah for all her kindness tothat she will knohat I am about

It was a sad day when she was taken froht I should have broken my heart if you had not arrived I was so happy with her, that I never wished to be away, though I used to like going out with Mangaleesu, and shooting with the little fowling-piece you gave hbourhood Did you know that a short ti where they were going? When I last went to see theround! At first I was afraid that they had been murdered; but Denis Maloney, who acco, and I could discover no re to the off If they hadn't been in a desperate hurry, they would, I aood-bye”

”I have no doubt that Mangaleesu was suiance for some special object--probably to take part in an attack on another chief We shall hear about it e get into Zululand,” replied Hendricks ”You were speaking just now of young Maloney I aood an account of him; he appears to have acted the part of a true friend to you”

”Indeed he has, and I aed to hi so long, for he taught s I know Still he declares that he hates books, and would a hundred ti

Poor fellow! he has becoive hih everybody else in the town thinks he is dead”

”I do not agree with theh I confess that I am very anxious about my old friend,” answered Hendricks; ”I still hope that he pushed, as I know he intended doing, far away to the northward, and that though he ot into difficulties, he has escaped with his life

I think it very likely, however, that he has lost his waggon and servants, or he would havetrip I ers in all directions; but could hear nothing of hie that he should have so totally disappeared, without leaving any trace to show the direction he took I am inclined to believe that he was entrapped by some treacherous chief or by some rebel boers who have often vowed that they would allow no Englishman to come near the territory they clai, Denis Maloney, noell-grown lad, rode up He had previously been foron at a little distance All traces of sickness had disappeared, his muscles ell knit, and his countenance bronzed by the heat of the sun to which he had been exposed during a trading expedition dispatched by his uncle into Zululand He had gone in the capacity of clerk or accountant to the leader of the expedition, his duties being sio on board shi+p He had acquitted hiained experience both as a hunter and a trader His uncle was soto fit hiht try his fortune in trading, chiefly for cattle, a Broderick asked me to come on and inquire e are likely to outspan, for they cory and tired, as they are not well accusto their leader

”Tell them we shall camp in an hour or in less tiet soon,” answered Hendricks

Young Lionel was inclined to feel so like contempt for those so e that they were hungry and tired after travelling so sun Denis, who had, it must be confessed, spoken one word for the a portion, distributed the rest between his two companions One of theood-looking, and well-grown, not having the appearance, however, of a person particularly well fitted for a life in the wilderness The other, Harry Crawford, though lance still less fitted for roughing it Not that he wanted breadth of shoulders, strong muscles, or stout limbs; but that his countenance betokened intellect and refinement, rather than firmness, resolution, and the other qualities requisite for a person who has to go through the hardshi+ps of a settler's existence