I could only pray to God that I might either be rescued or die swiftly.
"As I prayed I dropped into a kind of doze from utter weariness, and
then I had the strangest dream. I dreamed that Indaba-zimbi stood over
me nodding his white lock, and spoke to me in Kaffir, telling me not to
be frightened, for you would soon be with me, and that meanwhile I must
humour Hendrika, pretending to be pleased to have her near me. The dream
was so vivid that I actually seemed to see and hear him, as I see and
hear him now."
Here I looked up and glanced at old Indaba-zimbi, who was sitting near.
But it was not till afterwards that I told Stella of how her vision was
brought about.
"At any rate," she went on, "when I awoke I determined to act on my
dream. I took Hendrika's hand, and pressed it. She actually laughed in a
wild kind of way with happiness, and laid her head upon my knee. Then I
made signs that I wanted food, and she threw wood on the fire, which I
forgot to tell you was burning in the cave, and began to make some of
the broth that she used to cook very well, and she did not seem to
have forgotten all about it.
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