It was a great comfort to me afterwards that I did so, for not one grain of what I sowed this time came to anything: for the dry months following, the earth having had no rain after the seed was sown, it had no moisture to assist its growth, and never came up at all till the wet season had come again, and then it grew as if it had been but newly sown.
Het bleek naderhand, dat het zeer gelukkig was dat ik dit gedaan had, want van al wat ik gezaaid had, schoot thans niets op, zoo lang de thans volgende drooge maanden duurden; doch toen het natte jaargetijde weder gekomen was, schoot het op, alsof het pas gezaaid was geworden.