bichte

Updated: July 18, 2025

To avoid these, the column struck off across open veldt into a hollow where men had to feel their way among stunted bushes of the "Wacht een bichte" thorn, and across dongas where the sandy banks crumbled under weights incautiously placed, and slid down with men into depths of six feet or more.

Henry H. S. Pearse - Four Months Besieged: The Story of Ladysmith