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Seven Years in South Africa.

group of nearly thirty people brought to a stand-still on its bank. They were for the most part laundresses, who had gone out in the morning as usual to the sulphurous springs, a mile or two

NARROW ESCAPE NEAR CRADOCK.
NARROW ESCAPE NEAR CRADOCK.

NARROW ESCAPE NEAR CRADOCK.

further up the river, but on their return had found their progress arrested by the sudden rising of the flood. I was greatly tempted to turn my horse’s head round, and if I could have believed that the case was of trifling importance, I should unhesi-