buchenhout

Updated: May 11, 2025

"Did you find your messengers, Mr. Meyer?" she asked, when the men had lit their pipes, and the square-face as Hollands was called in those days, from the shape of the bottle was set upon the rough table of speckled buchenhout wood. "Yes, I found them," he answered; "they are in the kitchen now." And he looked at Mr. Clifford.

Henry Rider Haggard - Benita, an African romance