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Page 13
... direction I knew the hotel to be , until I found myself in rather a fix , for straight ahead of me was a long line of thick and high sugar - bushes which had quite recently been fired , and , as far as I could see , there was no path ...
... direction I knew the hotel to be , until I found myself in rather a fix , for straight ahead of me was a long line of thick and high sugar - bushes which had quite recently been fired , and , as far as I could see , there was no path ...
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... direction we started , we were anxious to make a move as soon as possible . The " Melrose " was leaving on the 23rd . I secured my passage in her , and telegraphed A. to meet me on board at Port Elizabeth . Her ad- vertised time for ...
... direction we started , we were anxious to make a move as soon as possible . The " Melrose " was leaving on the 23rd . I secured my passage in her , and telegraphed A. to meet me on board at Port Elizabeth . Her ad- vertised time for ...
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... direction , and also went ourselves in pairs , taking our rifles , as one of the boys who had been out earliest saw several spring - bôks about . We were , however , equally unsuccessful in finding the horses or seeing a bôk ; and as ...
... direction , and also went ourselves in pairs , taking our rifles , as one of the boys who had been out earliest saw several spring - bôks about . We were , however , equally unsuccessful in finding the horses or seeing a bôk ; and as ...
Page 87
... direction , and at last came so close that we could plainly hear the rushing flames crackling through the tall grass ... directions for our comfort . We inspanned the oxen and went up to the farm to have our breakfast , and revelled in ...
... direction , and at last came so close that we could plainly hear the rushing flames crackling through the tall grass ... directions for our comfort . We inspanned the oxen and went up to the farm to have our breakfast , and revelled in ...
Page 95
... directions , and ideas as to time and distance , which one has to contend against throughout South Africa . Our friend at the farm had advised us to outspan for the night , at a store lately built close by the main road to the drift ...
... directions , and ideas as to time and distance , which one has to contend against throughout South Africa . Our friend at the farm had advised us to outspan for the night , at a store lately built close by the main road to the drift ...
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appeared arrived assegais Barbara HUTTON beast birds blue wildebeeste Boers bôk boys breakfast buffalo bullet bush camp Cape Cape Town chance cloth coffee colour cook dark Delagoa Bay dinner distance Durban farm Fcap feet fire followed forelouper French Morocco fresh gave gilt edges giraffe give grass guns hand Harrismith head herd Herr Marensky hill horse inspanned instant Jantze Kaffirs killed krall leaving Leydenburg lion looked Maritzburg Martini-Henry mealies meat Middelburg miles morning Morocco Natal never night once ourselves outspanned oxen passed present Pretoria quagga reeds riding rifle river road rock rode round Secocoeni shot side sight skin sloot snake soon South Africa spoor spring-bôk started stream supply thick took town Transvaal trees trek treked tsetse fly turned veldt waggon whole Woodward wounded yards Zulus
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