hey overtook the waggon just as it reached the
camping-place, where a fire was soon burning, and the oxen contentedly
cropping the ample supply of excellent grass.

CHAPTER TEN.

A GLORIOUS SIGHT FOR A HUNTER.

Watch was set in the usual manner, so that the fire might be well kept
up, and after a good dry, and a hearty meal--such a one as is made by
those who have toiled all day in the open air--those who were at liberty
so to do soon sought their blankets, and slept soundly and well.

To Dick and Jack it seemed that they had only just lain down, when there
was a firm hand laid upon them, and they were awakened by the General,
who signed to them in the grey morning light to get up.

They crept out of the waggon yawning, but that sign of slothfulness was
soon chased away, and their father joining them, they took their guns
and followed the General, leaving Dinny with orders to wake the boys,
and to get breakfast ready by their return.

"Where are we going, father?" asked Dick.

"I can't say, my boy. The Zulu awakened me as he did you. He has
something to show us, I suppose."

Their way lay up a woodland slope, where the trees had a park-like
aspect, and beneath their shade it was still quite dim, but here and
there they caught glimpses of the sky, which was flecked with little
clouds of orange, and vermilion, and gold, while the light was rapidly
growing in the east.

The General went on rapidly, as if quite sure of his route, and it
seemed that the point at which he was aiming was the highest part of a
ridge.

And so it proved, for when he had reached the summit the Zulu chief
walked cautiously along for a short distance, and then stopped and
stooped down, motioning to those who followed to do the same.

They obeyed him implicitly, preparing their pieces at the same time.
Then creeping up to him cautiously, they found that they were on a ridge
looking down into a widespread valley, flooded with the light of the
approaching sunrise.

It was a glorious scene, and worth all the trouble and patience of their
long journey to see. It was almost breathlessly that they gazed at the
broad, grassy valley, with its clumps of trees, patches of wood, and
portions dotted with masses of rock, whose tops were bathed in the amber
morning tints, while in the direction where the little party gazed the
shadows of tree and stone lay dark.

Facing them in the east the clouds were now gorgeous in their hues, one
layer