He told me that, in the event of any
difficulty or want of money, I was to draw on him for whatever might
be required, and that he had advised the African Bank to that effect.
Further, he added, that at least his son had shown grit in this
matter, for which he respected him.
And now for a long while I must bid good-bye to Sir Alexander Somers
and all that has to do with England.
CHAPTER IV
MAVOVO AND HANS
We arrived safely at Durban at the beginning of March and took up our
quarters at my house on the Berea, where I expected that Brother John
would be awaiting us. But no Brother John was to be found. The old,
lame Griqua, Jack, who looked after the place for me and once had been
one of my hunters, said that shortly after I went away in the ship,
Dogeetah, as he called him, had taken his tin box and his net and
walked off inland, he knew not where, leaving, as he declared, no
message or letter behind him. The cases full of butterflies and dried
plants were also gone, but these, I found he had shipped to some port
in America, by a sailing vessel bound for the United States which
chanced to put in at Durban for food and water.
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