blesbuck-skin

Updated: May 31, 2025

Or did some small boy voortrekker, munching, from the pocket of his blesbuck-skin jacket, dried fruit sent up by some kind tante from the far south, carelessly throw aside a stone which had been accidentally included, and was that the ancestor of those trees which used to afford us so many delightful feasts?

W. C. (William Charles) Scully - Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer