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Page 68
... spoor , for the ground was hard as iron . We were accustomed , when outspanned where there was grass , to knee - halter them , and turn them out to feed with the oxen ; up to this time they had never strayed farther than a few hundred ...
... spoor , for the ground was hard as iron . We were accustomed , when outspanned where there was grass , to knee - halter them , and turn them out to feed with the oxen ; up to this time they had never strayed farther than a few hundred ...
Page 88
... spoor , destroy it . The lion was tracked by the boys into a narrow gorge , thickly grown over with bush . At the entrance to this gorge the Dutchmen drew up their tent waggon , and getting inside to be out of reach of danger , sent the ...
... spoor , destroy it . The lion was tracked by the boys into a narrow gorge , thickly grown over with bush . At the entrance to this gorge the Dutchmen drew up their tent waggon , and getting inside to be out of reach of danger , sent the ...
Page 106
... spoor . The massacres which then took place have thinned the game - to an almost incredible extent for so short a time throughout the greater part of South Africa . In many parts the veldt is literally speckled all over with the white ...
... spoor . The massacres which then took place have thinned the game - to an almost incredible extent for so short a time throughout the greater part of South Africa . In many parts the veldt is literally speckled all over with the white ...
Page 107
... spoor . Before Francis and I reached the spot where my bôk was , the darkness came upon us , and rendered it impossible to find it , even if we were to hit off the exact locality in which it lay ; so returning to the Kaffir's house I ...
... spoor . Before Francis and I reached the spot where my bôk was , the darkness came upon us , and rendered it impossible to find it , even if we were to hit off the exact locality in which it lay ; so returning to the Kaffir's house I ...
Page 111
... Saddling up , we rode off at a brisk trot back along the road to the Kaffir's hut , keeping a sharp look - out for the waggons or their spoor . When we had retraced our steps some six miles , turning off to the left was a.
... Saddling up , we rode off at a brisk trot back along the road to the Kaffir's hut , keeping a sharp look - out for the waggons or their spoor . When we had retraced our steps some six miles , turning off to the left was a.
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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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