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Off we started again, now leaping a ditch or scrambling through a sluit, now crashing through bushes and stumbling over ant-hills.

“Mightn’t he be lying dead in a sluit where you and Koos Bester left him last week?”

Towards dawn they passed through a narrow sluit.

A drift is really a crossing place over a river, which latter is called a sluit, if it has water in it, or a spruit if it is dry; and whether the drift is easy or difficult for wagons to cross depends on the banks and the bottom.

We did not get into camp until after dark, and the baggage was later still, as there was a nasty drift over a sluit at the entrance to the camping ground; fires had to be lighted to show the wagons the way across.