Tales of South Africa
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H. A. Bryden. Tales of South Africa
Chapter One. The Secret of Verloren Vlei
Chapter Two. A Bushwoman’s Romance
Chapter Three. A Desert Mystery
Chapter Four. The Professor’s Butterfly
Chapter Five. A Boer Pastoral
Chapter Six. Piet Van Staden’s Wife
Chapter Seven. A Legend of Prince Maurice
Chapter Eight. The Tapinyani Concession
Chapter Nine. Vrouw Van Vuuren’s Frenchman
Chapter Ten. The Great Secret
Chapter Eleven. The Story of Jacoba Steyn
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Nakeesa, the Bushwoman, awoke just as dawn crept upon the silent veldt. She belonged to that strange houseless race of wild hunters who roam the waterless, illimitable deserts of the North Kalahari, subsisting sometimes on game, at other times upon roots, reptiles, and berries.
It is needless to say that Nakeesa lay roofless. A little screen of branches, interwoven with a friendly bush, sheltered her and her sleeping husband and her child from the chill south wind that just now began to move through the desert. It was June – midwinter – and the night had been keen even to frostiness – so cold that Nakeesa had lain almost in the fire through the long hours. Her short hartebeest-skin cloak, and the tiny skin petticoat about her loins, only half protected her gaunt, three-quarter starved frame. The baby had nestled in the warmest corner of her cloak, as near to the fire as might be without burning. So close had Nakeesa lain to the pleasant warmth, that the shins of her poor bony legs were burnt raw, as they had been for weeks past. Her man, Sinikwe, lay scorched in exactly the same way.
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“There is no news,” returned Nakeesa. “I heard some lies only from the Bakalahari at Bachukuru fountain. Khama’s men are hunting in Mababi. As for me and my babe, we starve. Sinikwe has done no hunting till yesterday for moons past. Better had it been if thou hadst been my man, Kwaneet!”
“Come with me now, Nakeesa,” replied Kwaneet. “I will find thee meat. We will go far,” (pointing north) “and defy Sinikwe.”
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