TO
KATE FREILIGRATH KROEKER
AND
J. H. MEIRING BECK THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED.
"So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er uninhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns."
SWIFT.
Glossary
Allemagtig, almighty
Boomslang, an innocuous colubrine snake
*Donga, a gully with steep sides