Into the Unknown: A Romance of South Africa

Despite the awful storm which followed Grenville's departure, Leigh and Myzukulwa kept diligent guard, for both were determined that they would never again be caught napping. On...

In one corner of this vaulted room--for such it certainly looked--was piled a stack of firewood, whilst several strips of dried flesh hung invitingly against the wall, and three...

All the following day Grenville rested and slept, and when the night closed in he saw with growing satisfaction that there was likely to be a heavy storm, and this in itself ind...

Being perfectly secure from Mormon interference--at all events, for the moment--Grenville and the two Zulus proceeded somewhat leisurely on their way to the rock, for, truth to...

The party at the rock now passed some little time in quiet and comparative comfort. They were not in any way molested, and though strict watch was kept both by night and day, th...

The next few days passed slowly and sadly on the plateau. Winfield was quietly buried close by, his grave being concealed from view, as it was most desirable that the Mormons sh...

Throughout that day perfect quiet prevailed, but Grenville, uneasy, he knew not why, and unable to get Winfield's warning out of his mind, took his sleep early in the evening, a...

Gradually the band approached, and at last joined forces with the guards, and, to Grenville's horror, he now saw that the whole of his own party were prisoners, with their hands...

As the party sullenly descended the Pass, no one seemed in a conversational mood, but Leigh noticed that his cousin took a very easy pace, and urged them to feed well, just befo...

Grenville briefly detailed to the Zulu all they had seen in the canon, eliciting many wondering comments from him as to the possible utility of the figure in warfare, after whic...

Grenville was so obviously suffering from hunger, fatigue, and exposure, that his friends, eager as they were to question him, forebore, for his appearance was such--especially...

And now, as Grenville listened intently, he could distinguish the tramp of a body of armed men approaching, and with a beating heart he kneeled down upon the bridge, projecting...

For fully fifteen minutes, which seemed so many hours, did the little party wait, in order to allow the main body of the Mormon fraternity to get well on their way in the direct...

As Leigh and his betrothed sat talking by the fire that night, and keeping watch until Amaxosa's return, they were surprised to see the sky suddenly lighten in the distance, and...

For the rest of the night Grenville lay racked with mental agony. Before another dawn came stealing over the Eastern Mountains he was to die a violent death; still, the thought...

We must now return perforce to the little party at the plateau, and observe the actions of its members which led up to the awful denouement portrayed in the preceding chapter. A...

On the following morning Grenville was admitted to an Indaba (council) with the chiefs of the Undi, and learned that Amaxosa had induced them to come through the "great black ho...

"Well, old man, what do we do next?" The speaker, a fine young fellow of some five-and-twenty summers, reclining on the rough grass, with clouds of tobacco-smoke filtering throu...

And now night once more descended upon East Utah, and the prisoner knew that he had one day less to live. Still, he kept up heart and remained on the _qui vive_ for any opportun...

"Now then, Dick," said Alf Leigh, "as I, at all events, see no more of those objectionable rifle-barrels round here, I'll repeat my question of yesterday--What do we do next?"

Grenville and his companions, after numberless hardships, owing to the unprecedentedly heavy rains, at last reached Natal, where our friend had the satisfaction of acting as bes...