The Moffats . to draw a bow, he would standbetween them as suppliant, imploring them tomake up the quarrel without bloodshed. Allud-ing to his past life, he would say, What haveI now of all the battles I have fought and all thecattle I took, but shame and remorse? Without the generosity of the Afrikaners, lifewould have gone unduly hard with Robert Moffat,for food was scarce in that arid region. A gift oftwo cows from the chief saved him many a hungrynight, while the clever marksmanship of TitusAfrikaner brought him the elusive game. His 77 THE MOFFATS food consisted wholly of milk and meat, f
The Moffats . to draw a bow, he would standbetween them as suppliant, imploring them tomake up the quarrel without bloodshed. Allud-ing to his past life, he would say, What haveI now of all the battles I have fought and all thecattle I took, but shame and remorse? Without the generosity of the Afrikaners, lifewould have gone unduly hard with Robert Moffat,for food was scarce in that arid region. A gift oftwo cows from the chief saved him many a hungrynight, while the clever marksmanship of TitusAfrikaner brought him the elusive game. His 77 THE MOFFATS food consisted wholly of milk and meat, first oneand then the other, occasionally both at once andsometimes neither. The diet hard and the blan-ket on the ground were but the cross to be joy-fully borne for this youthful, sine\\^ pioneer,who had sprung to his place in Gods greatvanguard of workers! 78 CHAPTER VI THE GIPSY LIFE OF ANAFRICAN TRAVELER I refuse to acknowledge that there is anything I ought todo which I cannot do.—Mary Porter AFBIKANEESMILED APPRECIAXnTXYAT THE WORDSWHICH HECAUGHT. VI THE GIPSY LIFE OF ANAFRICAN TRAVELER
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