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... reaching down their necks . As they slouch past , dressed in brown velveteen trousers and coats , with broad - brimmed soft felt hats on their heads , and pipes in their mouths , we catch a few words of a guttural language which sounds ...
... reaching down their necks . As they slouch past , dressed in brown velveteen trousers and coats , with broad - brimmed soft felt hats on their heads , and pipes in their mouths , we catch a few words of a guttural language which sounds ...
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... reaching Cape Town is to quit it as soon as possible ; and alarming are the stories he hears on all sides of hot nights , when sleep is out of the question , of sou'- westers during which the very paving stones per- form aërial flights ...
... reaching Cape Town is to quit it as soon as possible ; and alarming are the stories he hears on all sides of hot nights , when sleep is out of the question , of sou'- westers during which the very paving stones per- form aërial flights ...
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... reached there . But on whichever side we ultimately decided on making our hunting - ground , we could not be wrong in going to Pretoria , the capital of the Transvaal , as there we should be able to obtain the latest and most trust ...
... reached there . But on whichever side we ultimately decided on making our hunting - ground , we could not be wrong in going to Pretoria , the capital of the Transvaal , as there we should be able to obtain the latest and most trust ...
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... reached Algoa Bay , the nautical term for Port Elizabeth , at midnight , and A. , who had been waiting for hours in the cold and wet , came on board , but had to sleep on the transom , as all the berths were occupied . The.
... reached Algoa Bay , the nautical term for Port Elizabeth , at midnight , and A. , who had been waiting for hours in the cold and wet , came on board , but had to sleep on the transom , as all the berths were occupied . The.
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... quietly at home even , for in one of the at Maritzburg not a month first papers I saw afterwards , were the names of two of the three among the killed . East London . 25 Until we reached East London the 24 Eight Months in an Ox - Waggon .
... quietly at home even , for in one of the at Maritzburg not a month first papers I saw afterwards , were the names of two of the three among the killed . East London . 25 Until we reached East London the 24 Eight Months in an Ox - Waggon .
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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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