side of Mak, whose breakfast he shared along with the men.

"I like that, Mr Mark, sir," said Dan. "The little chap looks quite a
gentleman in his way; and he acted as such too, didn't he, Buck?"

"Ay," growled the big driver. "There arn't much of him, but he makes
the most of it; don't he, Bob?"

"Yes," said Bob, laughing. "Peter Dance and me have been talking him
over. We should like to take him home with us. They would give
anything we liked to ask for him in London, to put in a circus or a
show."

"Indeed!" said Mark, with a snort. "Thank you! But you had better not
let your master hear you talk like that, Bob. He'd begin making your
ears warm by telling you what the slave trade was. This little fellow's
a visitor, and my cousin and I want you men to treat him well. No
nonsense, sir. He has only come to stay till we start, and then he is
going back to the forest."

But nothing seemed farther from the pigmy's thoughts, for when a fresh
start was made, with the distant kopjes and piles of stone now hidden by
the heated haze, the little chief shouldered his spear, crossed to the
Illaka's side, and marching beside him, two steps to his one, kept
abreast.

"I do like that, Mr Mark, sir," said Dan. "Look at old Brown going
along yonder with his foreloping. Why, it would take three of that
little chap to make one of he, and I don't know how many of him to weigh
down Buck Denham in a pair of scales. But is the little one coming
along with us?"

"I suppose so," said Mark: "eh, Dean?" he continued, and signing to him
to follow he dropped back a few paces and continued to his cousin, "I
have only just thought of it; he is coming with us to show where they
find the gold."

"Why, of course!" cried Dean. "I might have thought of that."

"Yes, but you didn't. Here, let's go and tell father and the doctor.
Come on! And then I'll give you your chance. You tell them just as if
it had occurred to you."

"No, thank you," said Dean quietly. "I don't like borrowed plumes."

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX.

FINDING AN ANTIQUITY.

The kopjes with their supposed buildings proved to be farther away than
was expected, and a halt was made at night at the first of the outlying
piles of tree overgrown stones, while it was the middle of the next day
before their goal was reached. A regular halt was made at a very chaos
of stones, some being evidently artificially built up after the fashion
of walls huge in size, but