f
Officers generally understand by the words "indefatigable," and
"unconquerable":--

"After a long journey of thirty hours I reached ---- railway
station, expecting, in the virgin simplicity of my youthful mind,
to find his place within sight--perhaps across a couple of
stiles--instead of which I found that it was thirty-six miles or
more--four hours' drive in a Cape cart. The only 'boy' at the
station with a vehicle was engaged, so I bade him come back again
for me as soon as he had got rid of his fare, which he did in
something over an hour, although he had said he should be 'back in
a second.' When he did come he was unwilling to take me without his
baas' leave, so we set off to find the baas; he was not at his
house nor at his stable; he might be at church. I went and routed
him out of his devotions, finally bargaining with him to take me
there and back for L3!

"Now Mr. ----'s 'farm' comprises some eighteen or twenty different
farms, of which about 160,000 acres are in one block, and some
80,000 acres more in three or four separate pieces. Each of these
farms is managed by a farmer who is responsible to the top manager,
who also has charge of one of the individual farms. My destination
was a farm where Mr. ---- was believed by the railway people to be
that day.

"The first half of the ride we were cooked in the sun; then
darkness came on--black darkness; then some ominous drops of rain,
which were soon _sheets_ instead of _drops_, and such thunder and
lightning as I never want to hear or see again in this life.

"I was afraid we should get lost in the dark; for, although it was
called a 'main road,' it was in reality merely a _track_--not that
in many places--with any amount of 1 ft., 2 ft., 3 ft., and 4 ft.
holes (no, I draw the line at the 3 ft. holes, upon consideration);
but my driver, who dignified himself with the title of 'mail
contractor,' was sure that his horses could find the way in the
darkest darkness, as they do the journey each way twice every week.
But when the darkness got so dense that we could not even see the
horses except when it lightened, even he grew doubtful, remembered
that he _himself_ had not driven them along that road for more than
eight months (though his boy had done), and he thought that we had
bette