But as the company moved, shepherds whistled in the darkness, passing warning of the Americans' approach.
"Further on Up the Road" vowed, "Let's take the good times as they come" and "Land of Hope and Dreams" predicted, "Tomorrow there will be sunshine, and all this darkness pass".
Somewhere in the darkness, they passed each other.
Hope, for a man who has lived through as much as Motshumi, takes the form of impatience for the darkness to pass.
Hope, for a man who has lived through as much as Mogorosi Motshumi, takes the form of impatience for the darkness to pass.
Stalagmites and stalactites loom out of the darkness and pass us as we crawl along, their wet shape and colour reminding us of the human body.
(I accompanied an American major on a tour of the grounds that evening, and in the darkness we passed through two barbed-wire barriers without being challenged.
For example, a peak passing a trough cancels each other out to create darkness; a peak passing another peak "interferes constructively" to create a bright spot.
Modern free diving is a sport in which divers, on a single breath, descend hundreds of feet, into cold and darkness, and often pass out before they return.
It was minus five degrees Celsius, and the landscape was mostly obscured by darkness; a car passed by along a lonely-looking road.
