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29 - Jock of the Bushveld by Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick · Jock of the Bushveld

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  Speaker 1: Snake stories are proverbially an uncommercial risk for those who
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  Speaker 1: value a reputation for truthfulness. Hailstorms are scarcely less disastrous.
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  Speaker 1: Hence these notes Mumba. This is believed to be the
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  Speaker 1: largest and swiftest of the deadly snakes, and one of
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  Speaker 1: the most wantonly vicious. The late doctor Colenso, Bishop of Zululand,
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  Speaker 1: in his Zulu Directory, describes them as attaining a length
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  Speaker 1: of twelve feet and capable of chasing a man on horseback.
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  Speaker 1: The writer has seen several of this length and has
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  Speaker 1: heard of measurements up to fourteen feet, which however, were
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  Speaker 1: not sufficiently verified. He has also often heard stories of
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  Speaker 1: men on horseback being chased by black numbers, but has
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  Speaker 1: never met the man himself, nor succeeded in eliciting the
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  Speaker 1: important facts as to pace and distance, however that may be.
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  Speaker 1: The movements of a mumba, even on open ground are as,
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  Speaker 1: the writer has several times observed so incredibly swift as
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  Speaker 1: to leave no other impression on the mind than that
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  Speaker 1: of having witnessed a magical disappearance. How often and how
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  Speaker 1: far they travel on their tails, whether it is a
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  Speaker 1: continuous movement or merely a momentary uprising to command a view,
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  Speaker 1: and what length or what proportion of the body is
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  Speaker 1: on the ground for support or propulsion. The writer has
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  Speaker 1: no means of knowing. During the Zulu War, an imperial
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  Speaker 1: officer was bitten by a number while on horseback and
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  Speaker 1: died immediately. Hailstorms bad hailstorms occur every year in South Africa,
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  Speaker 1: but they do not last long. Ten minutes is enough
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  Speaker 1: to destroy everything that stands. The distances are immense and
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  Speaker 1: the area of disturbance is usually a narrow strip. Hence,
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  Speaker 1: except when one strikes a town, very few people ever
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  Speaker 1: witnessed them. This summer, hailstorms were more general and more
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  Speaker 1: severe in the transval than for some time past. A
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  Speaker 1: bad storm Bethel's description the size of the hailstones is
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  Speaker 1: only one of the factors. A strong wind enormously increases
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  Speaker 1: the destructiveness. Yet some idea may be gathered from the
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  Speaker 1: size of the stones. The writer took a plaster cast
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  Speaker 1: of one picked up at sieur Fontein near Johannesburg in
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  Speaker 1: November nineteen hundred six, which measured four and a half
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  Speaker 1: inches long, three and a half wide, and one and
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  Speaker 1: an eighth inches thick. A slab of white ice in
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  Speaker 1: the Heckport Valley near Johannesburg and in Barberton about the
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  Speaker 1: same date. The felt was like a glacier, the hill
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  Speaker 1: lay like snow inches deep, and during the worst spells.
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  Speaker 1: The general run of hailstones varied in size from pigeon
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  Speaker 1: eggs to hen's eggs, but the big ones, the crash
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  Speaker 1: of whose individual blows was distinctly heard through the general raw,
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  Speaker 1: are described as bigger than cricket balls, and the size
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  Speaker 1: of breakfast cups, generally with an elongation or tail like
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  Speaker 1: a balloon. Sheep and buck were killed, and full grown
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  Speaker 1: cattle so battered that some were useless and others died
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  Speaker 1: of the injuries. Wooden doors were broken, in the panels
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  Speaker 1: being completely shattered. Corrugated iron roofs were perforated, and in
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  Speaker 1: some cases the hailstones drove completely through them. The writer
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  Speaker 1: photographed a portion of a roof in Barbeton which had
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  Speaker 1: suffered thus, and saw plaster casts formed by pouring plaster
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  Speaker 1: of Paris into the indentations which two hailstorms had made
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  Speaker 1: in a flower bed in diameter equalling, respectively tennis and
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  Speaker 1: cricket balls. Near Harrismith O. R. C. In nineteen hundred three,
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  Speaker 1: two herd boys with a troop of about a hundred
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  Speaker 1: goats and calves were caught by the hail. The boys
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  Speaker 1: and all the stock except one old goat were killed.
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  Speaker 1: Glossary note. The spelling of Cape, Dutch and native names
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  Speaker 1: is in many cases not to be determined by recognized authority.
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  Speaker 1: The pronunciation cannot be quite accurately suggested through the medium
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  Speaker 1: of English. The figures of weights and measurements of animals
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  Speaker 1: are gathered from many sources and refer only to first
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  Speaker 1: class specimens. The weights are necessarily approximate. Ass four Dutch
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  Speaker 1: literary meaning carrion bird ant beaar artfarch Dutch oretyrapus r
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  Speaker 1: fair ant. Heap marned made by termites or white ants,
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  Speaker 1: usually formed by one culony of ants, about two to
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  Speaker 1: four feet in base diameter and height, but often in
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  Speaker 1: certain localities very much larger. The writer photographed one this
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  Speaker 1: year near the scene of the last hunt, eighteen feet
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  Speaker 1: based diameter and ten feet high, and another in Roodisa,
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  Speaker 1: which formed a complete background for a traveling wagonette and
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  Speaker 1: six mules. In both cases these mounds were deserted cities,
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  Speaker 1: and trees probably fifty to one hundred years old were
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  Speaker 1: growing out of them. Assagai native native spear bass, Dutch master,
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  Speaker 1: boncella native a present baker Dutch a cup billy, a
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  Speaker 1: small tin utensil with liden handle used for boiling water.
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  Speaker 1: Buck sail tarpaulin used for covering transport wagons, which are
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  Speaker 1: known as buck wagons. Buffalo cape buffalo boss carfare height
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  Speaker 1: five foot six inches, weight possibly a thousand pounds, horns
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  Speaker 1: forty eight inches from tip to tip, and thirty six
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  Speaker 1: inches in length on curve, built on Dutch meat cut
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  Speaker 1: in strips, slightly salted and dried in the open air.
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  Speaker 1: Bushbuck a medium sized but very courageous antelope Tragelaphus scriptus
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  Speaker 1: height three feet, weigh one hundred and thirty pounds, horns
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  Speaker 1: males only eighteen inches. Bushveldt Dutch bush country, also called
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  Speaker 1: Lowfeldt and low country. Cane rat thrionymous Swindernnianus sharka native,
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  Speaker 1: the first of the Great Zulu Kings and founder of
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  Speaker 1: the Zulu military power. Dassi Dutch rock rabbit, kney pro
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  Speaker 1: Kavia hyrax capensus literary meaning little badger Dingon Dingan native,
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  Speaker 1: the second of the Great Zulu Kings, brother murderer and
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  Speaker 1: successor of Shaka. Dislborn Dutch. The pole of a vehicle
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  Speaker 1: Donga native. A gully or dry watercourse with steep banks.
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  Speaker 1: Dough boys, scones, frequently unleavened dough baked in coals, also
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  Speaker 1: ash cakes, roaster cookies, stick in the gizzards, felt bricks,
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  Speaker 1: and so on. Drift Dutch a ford Daika Dutch a
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  Speaker 1: small antelope found throughout Africa. Kephalophus greamy gross sweat thirty
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  Speaker 1: to forty pounds, height twenty eight inches, horns five and
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  Speaker 1: a half inches literary meaning diver, so called from its
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  Speaker 1: habit of disappearing and reappearing in low scrub in a
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  Speaker 1: succession of bonds when it first starts running. Go away
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  Speaker 1: bird the gray plantin eater Schizorbis concolor artibius Dutch. A
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  Speaker 1: large antelope, of which there are several varieties, varying in
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  Speaker 1: gross weight from three hundred to five hundred pounds, height
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  Speaker 1: forty eight inches, horns twenty four inches high felt Dutch.
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  Speaker 1: High country the plateau about five thousand to six thousand
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  Speaker 1: feet above sea level honey bird, the honey guide several species,
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  Speaker 1: family indicatoride honeysucker sunbird, several species, family nectarinide. Horse. Sickness
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  Speaker 1: a lung infection prevalent during summer in low lying parts,
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  Speaker 1: generally fatal, caused by microbes introduced in the blood by
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  Speaker 1: some insect. Imparlor native an antelope Apissarus melampus habitat bushfelt
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  Speaker 1: weigh a hundred and forty pounds, horns up to twenty inches.
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  Speaker 1: Strait imp native an army or body of armed natives
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  Speaker 1: gathered for or engaged in war. inDuna native a headman, captain,
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  Speaker 1: or chief, great or petty in Gorse native chief used
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  Speaker 1: as a term of respect in address or salutation. In
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  Speaker 1: span Dutch to yoke up, harness up or hitch up
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  Speaker 1: Isandlwana meaning the little hand, the hill which gave the
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  Speaker 1: name to the battle in which the twenty fourth Regiment
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  Speaker 1: was annihilated in the Zulu War eighteen seventy nine. Kefferkorn
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  Speaker 1: sorghum gharsle native gently, carefully, pleasantly well, humbaghashle, farewell, go
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  Speaker 1: in peace, shallah gharshle, farewell, stay in peace. Kesler native
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  Speaker 1: a native of certain age and position entitled to wear
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  Speaker 1: the head ring Dutch, ringcorp ring head, kiri or kiri
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  Speaker 1: native sticks used for fighting, frequently knobbed, hence knob kerri
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  Speaker 1: Keetchewayo fourth and last of the great Zulu kings Clipspringer
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  Speaker 1: Dutch a small antelope in appearance and habit rather like
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  Speaker 1: shamois oreotragus saltartor, literally meaning a rock jumper. Kloof Dutch
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  Speaker 1: a gorge knee halter Dutch to couple the head to
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  Speaker 1: one fore leg, buy a rim or strap attached to
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  Speaker 1: the halter, closely enough to prevent the animal from moving fast.
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  Speaker 1: Koran Dutch the smaller bustard literary meaning scolding cock, Koodoo
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  Speaker 1: Strepsiceroska penses habitat rugged, bushy country. Height five feet, weight
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  Speaker 1: six hundred pounds, horns up to forty eight inches straight
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  Speaker 1: and sixty six inches on curve. Coppy Dutch a hill
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  Speaker 1: literary meaning a little head. Kral Dutch an enclosure for cattle,
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  Speaker 1: sheep et cetera. A corral, also a collection of native huts,
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  Speaker 1: the home of a family, the village of a chief
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  Speaker 1: or tribe. Crance German a precipitous face or coronet of
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  Speaker 1: rock on a hill or mountain. Lega varn a huge
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  Speaker 1: water lizard. The monitor cape Dutch. Maximum length up to
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  Speaker 1: eight feet lueper round shot for filing peace about four
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  Speaker 1: times the size of butt shot. Marula in zulu umgano
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  Speaker 1: a tree which furnishes soft white wood, which is carved
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  Speaker 1: into bowls, spoons, et cetera fruit eaten or fermented for drink.
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  Speaker 1: Sclerocarria caffra meerkat Dutch a small animal of the mongoose kind.
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  Speaker 1: Properly applied to Sirikata tetradactyla, but loosely to several species.
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  Speaker 1: Middlefeldt Dutch. The mixed country lying between the highfelt and
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  Speaker 1: the bushvelt. Next strop Dutch. The next strap or rim
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  Speaker 1: which attached to the yerkscaes keep the yoke in place,
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  Speaker 1: nix Dutch, nothing Orabi native. A small antelope Ourebia scaparia
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  Speaker 1: weight thirty pounds, height twenty four inches, horns six inches
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  Speaker 1: artspan Dutch to unyoke or unharness. Also the camp where
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  Speaker 1: one has outspanned, and places where it is customary or
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  Speaker 1: by law permitted to outspan. Panda properly Mpande native, the
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  Speaker 1: third of the Great Zulu, kings, partridge pheasant names applied
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  Speaker 1: somewhat loosely to various species of Franklin Pah Dutch, the
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  Speaker 1: great bustard literary meaning peacock Pezulu native on top up
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  Speaker 1: above port Dutch. A gap or gorge in a range
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  Speaker 1: of hills literary meaning gait quacha. Zebra correctly applied to
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  Speaker 1: equus quacher, now extinct, but still applied to the various
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  Speaker 1: species of zebra found in South Africa. Rim Dutch a
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  Speaker 1: start strip of rawhide, Rimpi Dutch a small brim Ritbach
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  Speaker 1: Dutch reed buck, curvy Capra arrondinum, height three foot six inches,
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  Speaker 1: groswaite one hundred forty pounds, horns male only up to
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  Speaker 1: sixteen inches. Sable antelope Hippotragus niger Dutch swart vitpence habitat
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  Speaker 1: bushfeldt height four foot six inches, weight three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty pounds, horns up to forty eight inches on curve.
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  Speaker 1: Sagaborna native Zulu equivalent of good day salted horse, one
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  Speaker 1: which has had horse sickness and is thus considered immune
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  Speaker 1: as in small pox. Hence, salted is freely used colloquially
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  Speaker 1: as meaning acclimatized, tough, hardened et cetera. Scounce Dutch a
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  Speaker 1: stone or earth breastwork for defense, very common in old
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  Speaker 1: native wars. Skellum Dutch a rascal like scotch skellum skeerum Dutch.
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  Speaker 1: A protection of bush or trees, usually against wild animals.
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  Speaker 1: Chambok Dutch, tapering rawhide whip made from Rhinoceros, hippopotamus or
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  Speaker 1: giraffe skin ski a yokski short for Dutch, yeuksky slut Dutch.
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  Speaker 1: A ditch span Dutch, a team spur Dutch footprints, also
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  Speaker 1: a trail of man, animal or vehicle. Spring buck Dutch
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  Speaker 1: a small antelope Antidorcas gazella ukhore habitat Highfeldt and other
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  Speaker 1: open grass country. Height thirty inches, weight up to ninety pounds,
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  Speaker 1: horns nineteen inches literary meaning jumping back. Sprat Dutch a
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  Speaker 1: stream squirrel or tree rat. Native name un chinand Famisciurus palliatus.
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  Speaker 1: Stembuck Dutch a small antelope Raficerus campistaies height twenty two inches,
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  Speaker 1: weight twenty five pounds, horns five inches. Stop Dutch a
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  Speaker 1: raised promenade or paved verandah in front orward sides of
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  Speaker 1: a house. Tumbuki grass native a very rank grass in places,
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  Speaker 1: reaches fifteen feet high and stem diameter one half an
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  Speaker 1: inch thick. Or rhinoceros bird the oxpecker Bulfega africana tiger.
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  Speaker 1: In South Africa, the leopard is generally called a tiger first,
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  Speaker 1: so described by the Dutch Toctocki. A slow moving beetle
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  Speaker 1: incapable of flight, gets its name from its means of
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  Speaker 1: signaling by wrapping the abdomen on the ground tenor bryonid
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  Speaker 1: beetle of the genus Samades. Trek Dutch literary meaning to pull,
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  Speaker 1: to move off, or go on a journey, a journey,
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  Speaker 1: an expedition, for example the Great Trek or exodus of
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  Speaker 1: Boors from the Cape Colony eighteen thirty six to eighteen
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  Speaker 1: forty eight. Also and commonly the time distance or journey
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  Speaker 1: from one art span to another. Trek gear, the traction gear, chain, yokes,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera of a wagon. The Boa pioneers had no
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  Speaker 1: chains and used rims plattered into a stout rope, hence
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  Speaker 1: trecto or pulling rope. Sissiby an antelope one of the
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  Speaker 1: Hartebias family Damaliscus lunatus Dutch bastard hartebius. Height forty eight inches,
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  Speaker 1: weighed three hundred pounds, horns fifteen inches. Setsi fly a
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  Speaker 1: gray fly little larger than the common house fly, whose
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  Speaker 1: bite is fatal to domesticated animals. Twiggle little People's word
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  Speaker 1: for the excited movement of a small dog's tail, believed
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  Speaker 1: to be a combination of wriggle and twiddle. Mumphaan native
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  Speaker 1: a boy, Munganam native my friend, um lung native, the
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  Speaker 1: native word to describe a white man. Felt Dutch the
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  Speaker 1: open or unoccupied country, uncultivated or grazing land. Flay Dutch
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  Speaker 1: a small shallow lake, a swamp, a depression, intermittently damp
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  Speaker 1: a water meadow. Furloper literary meaning front walker, the leader,
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  Speaker 1: the boy who leads the front, oxen the patent, tambo
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  Speaker 1: Zulu for take the rim. Forslach Dutch literary meaning front
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  Speaker 1: lash or skin, the strip of buck hide which forms
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  Speaker 1: the fine end of a whiplash water buck. Cobus ellipsi
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  Speaker 1: primnus Dutch krunghrat height forty eight inches, weight three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty pounds, horns males only thirty six inches Philbyist
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  Speaker 1: Dutch litterary meaning wild cattle, the bridled gnoo blue Vildebius
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  Speaker 1: Conochites terrhenus, height four foot six inches, weight four hundred pounds,
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  Speaker 1: horns thirty inches. Wild dog the cape hunting dog. Lychaeon
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  Speaker 1: Pictus wooden orange fruit of the clapper, a species of
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  Speaker 1: strychnos wolf, the usual name for the hyena, derived from
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  Speaker 1: tiger wolf. The pure Dutch name for the spotted hyena yukskae.
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  Speaker 1: The wooden slat, which coupled by neck drops holds the
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  Speaker 1: yoke in place. End of glossary, the end of jock
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  Speaker 1: of the bushveldt