Our voorlooper was no scraggy piccanin, he was brawny and bearded, an expert Mashona woodman. ❋ Arthur Shearly Cripps (1910)
Just as I had finished, and the driver, a man called Tom, was washing up the things, in comes the young scoundrel of a voorlooper driving one ox before him. ❋ Percy Addleshaw (1891)
These operations, though speedy as might be, were necessarily prolonged, for most of the men required several buckets of water over the head before they felt fit for such unaccustomed exercises, and they were scarcely finished before the creaking of wheels and the cries of the voorlooper as he urged his oxen announced that the wagon was within earshot. ❋ Percy Addleshaw (1891)
Here we camped and next morning, leaving the waggon in charge of my _voorlooper_ and a couple of the Strathmuir natives, for the driver was to act as my gun-bearer -- we marched down into the sea of bush-veld. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Here we found the waggon and oxen quite safe and were welcomed rapturously by my Zulu driver and the _voorlooper_, who had made up their minds that we were dead and were thinking of trekking homewards. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The voorlooper, a Zulu boy, who had left them for a little while to share the rest of the coffee with Hans, rose from his haunches with a grunt, and departed to fetch them. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
May in a wagon with a driver, a voorlooper, and a Kafir hunter called ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Nor, indeed, were they seen, for the driver and voorlooper were seated by the cooking-fire on its further side, smoking, and dozing as they smoked. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
I asked my _voorlooper_ if anything had happened during our absence. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
When the oxen had been turned loose to graze, and the voorlooper set to watch them, the driver of the waggon undid the cooking vessels and built ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
"By no means," answered the voorlooper, who did not like walking about at night, fearing lest he should meet spooks. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Indeed, of these I determined to be rid at once, so slipping off the waggon with Hans and some of the farm boys, for none of the Zulus would defile themselves by touching such human remnants -- I made up two of the smouldering fires, the light of which the _voorlooper_ had seen upon the sky, and on to them cast, or caused to be cast, those poor fragments. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Notwithstanding that Ralph was mad with impatience we halted the waggon for a few minutes to take counsel, and in the end decided to send the voorlooper back to the camp which we had left to warn our friends of what we had learned as to the onslaught on our brethren in Natal, though we had small faith in the story. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
However, as I did not trust him in the least, much against their will, I left my driver and _voorlooper_ to guard my belongings. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
Within an hour of the despatch of the messengers the Boers rode up from their waggons, and to them, as well as to ourselves and to the Kaffirs who had gathered, the driver and voorlooper told all they knew of the terrible crime that had been done upon the persons of Ralph Kenzie and his wife by Piet Van Vooren and his band. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
The driver sat on the box with his huge whip, his shoulders well up and his head down, driving mechanically, and seeming to be asleep, while the voorlooper kept pace with the leading oxen, and hour after hour passed away without a word being spoken. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
West stepped to his companion's side, looked out between the rough curtains of the wagon, and saw a group of mounted Boers surrounding a freshly-arrived wagon with its long team of bullocks, the black voorlooper at the head and the driver with his enormous whip on the box. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
All this was duly carried out, the oxen in-spanned, and the wagon began its lumbering course back towards Kimberley, the black driver and voorlooper taking their places in the most unconcerned way, as if it were all in the day's work, while Anson, after eating voraciously, had a fit of the sulks, watching narrowly the movements of the police. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
'voorlooper,' Jim-Jim, the boy whom we buried in the bread-bag. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)
