bultong

Updated: May 7, 2025

Here at Kiangan each man has below the knee the native brass leglet, and on the left hip the bultong, or native bag, a sporran, indeed, showing the local influence in its blue and white stripes. Thus accoutered, the first impression formed was that these troops were actually highlanders; on reflection, this impression is correct, for they are highlanders in every sense of the word.

Cornélis de Witt Willcox - The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon

The boy looked up at them once from under his bent eyebrows, and then looked down again. "The creature looks as if all the devils in hell were in it," cried Tant Sannie. "Say you took them, boy. Young things will be young things; I was older than you when I used to eat bultong in my mother's loft, and get the little niggers whipped for it. Say you took them." But the boy said nothing.

Olive Schreiner - The Story of an African Farm, a novel