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Updated: May 8, 2025
The first two games out of three, "seven up," to decide. A bag of mealie-meal stood in the corner of the tent; I laid this prone so that it might do duty as a table. Rhodes and I sat down on the ground, one at each side of the meal bag, and the game began.
He was a most active and occasionally a successful prospector. It was he, I fancy, who years afterwards discovered the Pigg's Peak Mine in Swaziland. Charlie's weakness was drink. He and I ate the mealie-meal porridge of poverty among the Blyde River terraces for a couple of months. During this time we never earned enough to pay for the salt which seasoned our insipid repasts.
A most villainous kind of bannock of unleavened mealie-meal and crushed oats, calculated to try the strongest teeth and trouble the toughest digestion, "Gold Pen" might have added. But the game was to make believe you rather enjoyed it than otherwise.
Slowly he moved round to my side, and stood regarding me with interest. 'For God's sake get me some food, I said. 'Ja, Baas, was the answer; and he disappeared for a minute, and returned with a wooden bowl of hot mealie-meal porridge, and a calabash full of water. I could not use my hands, so he fed me with the blade of his knife.
My commissariat arrangements were simple mealie-meal and sugar, being all I required in the way of food. Bush tea grew all over the mountain; I could pluck sackfuls of it within fifty feet of my tent. I marked out the site for my reservoir just below the gravel deposit, at a spot where the fall of the hillside was about one in fifteen.
I had seen the type before the old broken-down native who had no kin to support him, and no tribe to shelter him. They wander about the roads, cooking their wretched meals by their little fires, till one morning they are found stiff under a bush. The native gave me a good-day in Kaffir, then begged for tobacco or a handful of mealie-meal. I asked him where he came from.
But after a week's feeding on impoop, as they called the mealie-meal porridge which was their staple food at the mines, they began to pick up. At the end of a month they would be sleek and in first-rate fettle. It is practically certain that before leaving home these people had been instructed in the art of diamond-stealing.
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