at could scarcely grow weeds; the government had not been entirely honest with these settlers, neither in Cape Town nor in London. ' 'Those two dead. We marched forth to capture the country, but suddenly Boer horse- men appeared from everywhere, led by this great whiskered brute of a man, General de Groot, riding a little Basuto pony. He then asked the Van Doorns to study other sheets of paper, where the same verses appeared in the Old Dutch of their 1630 Amster- dam Bible.
' 'What happened at Paardeberg?' The general seated himself uneasily on an upended box and shrugged his shoulders. rther diamonds had been uncovered: 'They work from sunrise to sundown, and they got all kinds of machinery. He marched the entire force to the parade ground, then summoned one of the girls' regiments and announced: 'The men may marry the women. The triumphant Spyker was striding away.
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