They had met or passed other waggons from time to time-for it was the main road to the Transvaal-and now they were descending into the tugela valley.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Shouting, stamping with their feet, hurling sticks and stones into the water, the Igazipuza on the bank were endeavouring to scare off the voracious reptiles until their comrades should be safe ashore again, and indeed the frightful din of which they were guilty was enough to scare the life out of every alligator between the tugela and the Zambesi.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
The Governor of Natal, General Sir George Colley, raised what troops he could in that Colony, and marched northward; but before he could reach the Transvaal border a strong force of Boers, commanded by Commandant-General Joubert, crossed it and took up a position at Laing's Nek, a steep ridge close to the watershed between the upper waters of the Klip River, a tributary of the Vaal, and those of the Buffalo River, which joins the tugela and flows into the Indian Ocean.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce