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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tain to follow. South Africa is no land for rain in winter. It is a country intended to bask in everlasting sunshine. Winter, with its cold and keen blasts of wind, is bad enough, yet, so long as the sun shines, it is bearable. But when, during the months from May to August, the face of the heavens is overcast with low hanging clouds, and there is that sickening dripping which is more a Scotch mist than a genuine rain, when the roads get soaked, and every little watercourse fills up?then man and beast alike experience perfect wretchedness. Neither houses nor stables, farmyard nor open veldt offer efficient accommodation. The sheep droop their ears and stand huddled together; the cattle do not stir but keep up a continual deep sad lowing; and man, European and native?but native even more than white?is the picture of misery. We had come to the first outspan, which means that we had driven for two hours. Promptly we halted and unharnessed. The poor horses were hot, rolled about in the grass, sniffed water in the distance and made for it, Jakob, armed with the cart-whip, following them. It was past ten o'clock now. Anxiously I scanned the sky, and descried unmistakable forebodings of rain within a short time. My heart fairly palpitated. I had not bargained for this. I knew that as soon as it rained we should not only suffer the greatest inconvenience, but our horses would not take us much further. But then my driver had spoken of Du Plessis farm: possibly there would be accommodation there. We ought to reach it about four o'clock in the afternoon. So I sat down on the disselboom, and calculated. ' Two more schofts, ' I said to myself; ' surely we can make that.' And comforted to a certain extent, I went to take a stroll on the veldt. When my servant came back with the..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217329422 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021732942X |
| Weight | 1.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.35 In |
| List Price | $41.29 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 608 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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