“Our low life was the level’s and the night’s;
He’s for the morning.”

Olive Schreiner.

19, Russell Road,
Kensington, W.,
February, 1897.


Aardvark - The great anteater.
Cape Smoke - A very inferior brandy made in Cape Colony.
Kopje - Little hillock.
Kraal - A Kaffir encampment.
Mealies - Maize (corn).
Riem - A thong of undressed leather universally used in South Africa.
Vatje of Old Dop - A little cask of Cape brandy.
Veld - Open Country.