The oxen are not yet made fast to the disselboom for the night, and one of my natives is away to collect them.

“Now I am ready,” he said, rising and strolling over to the waggon, where he seated himself on the disselboom.

Then we all went, leaving Henri Marais still cutting up his tobacco on the disselboom.

Slipping quickly over the driver's seat, he dropped between the two "wheelers" to the disselboom, or tongue, of the trek wagon.