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... Creek - Reefing - The Berg- " Steamer " dies -Physicking Oxen - Fire - Rain - A narrow Path - A Transvaal Storm - Food scarce - A Horse strays - A Hill of Snakes - Klip - springers • 211 . 223 CONTENTS . xi CHAPTER XXV . Loses Kop - The.
... Creek - Reefing - The Berg- " Steamer " dies -Physicking Oxen - Fire - Rain - A narrow Path - A Transvaal Storm - Food scarce - A Horse strays - A Hill of Snakes - Klip - springers • 211 . 223 CONTENTS . xi CHAPTER XXV . Loses Kop - The.
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... hills opposite the house . Behind the hotel is a plantation of seventy acres , and behind that the veldt stretches away for miles , radiant with every sort of brilliant- coloured heath and tinted grasses , with here and there a small ...
... hills opposite the house . Behind the hotel is a plantation of seventy acres , and behind that the veldt stretches away for miles , radiant with every sort of brilliant- coloured heath and tinted grasses , with here and there a small ...
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... hills opposite , which looked very lovely , glistening in the sun , with thickets of silver - trees growing up their sides , and from there get a view of the surrounding country . After lunch , my steed - known as " The Blue , " from a ...
... hills opposite , which looked very lovely , glistening in the sun , with thickets of silver - trees growing up their sides , and from there get a view of the surrounding country . After lunch , my steed - known as " The Blue , " from a ...
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... hill a well - beaten track marked out the road , but , when once on the level , the track disappeared altogether , and I rode on in the direction I knew the hotel to be , until I found myself in rather a fix , for straight ahead of me ...
... hill a well - beaten track marked out the road , but , when once on the level , the track disappeared altogether , and I rode on in the direction I knew the hotel to be , until I found myself in rather a fix , for straight ahead of me ...
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... hill sides , with no sign of vegetation upon them . Along the coast several wrecked ships , not yet washed to pieces and broken up , stand out distinctly against the white sand , for- saken and disabled , and act as scarecrows to the ...
... hill sides , with no sign of vegetation upon them . Along the coast several wrecked ships , not yet washed to pieces and broken up , stand out distinctly against the white sand , for- saken and disabled , and act as scarecrows to the ...
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