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Updated: June 13, 2025
Then we made half a dozen roaring fires with some mealie cobs that we found lying in the house, stripped ourselves, and held our boots and clothing over the fire till they were fairly dry. By this time the water boiled; we drank some coffee, then made up beds on the floor and slept till morning.
As a matter of fact these Zulus were foraging in the mealie fields, since owing to the drought food was very scarce in Zululand that year and the regiments were hungry.
She was his friend; she would tell him kindly the truth. The woman answered by a loud, ringing laugh. "Give it him, old missis! Give it him!" It was so nice to see the white man who had been master hunted down. The coloured woman laughed, and threw a dozen mealie grains into her mouth to chew. All anger and excitement faded from the old man's face.
Their wealth was their cattle, and their mealie or maize grounds; their food, beef, mealies, and curdled milk; their drink, beer, made of maize; their great luxury, snuff, made of dried dacca and burnt aloes, and taken from an ivory spoon.
Hume; but already the observant eyes of the Hunter had seen that Venning was upset. "All right; just try this roast mealie;" and the strong hand steadied the boy to his seat. Mr.
'Yes, returned his 'ma, without taking her eyes off the mealie patch, 'what do you see, son? 'I won't tell you, ma. 'Ma' paid no particular attention to this decision on the part of her small son, but he continued to look into his 'ma's' face as if uncertain about something. 'Ma, I won't tell you what I see, he continued, coming up closer to the stout lady and catching hold of her hand.
To the right of the huts as you look up the kloof, and commanding the mealie lands, stands the baobab tree that I have mentioned. Into that baobab tree I made up my mind to go. Then if the elephants appeared I should get a shot at them. I announced my intentions to the head man of the kraal, who was delighted.
It was not a pleasant series of thoughts to trouble one in the dead of the night, and just then I heard a sigh. "Awake, Denham?" I whispered. "Yes horribly," he replied. "I say, smell that?" "What?" I replied, feeling startled. "Some idiot's lit his pipe, and we shall all be burned in our beds, I was going to say: I mean in this mealie straw." "I can't smell it," I said. "What!
That was the cardinal condition of the success anticipated for the venture; and the guarantees on this head were, in view of the status of the guarantors, accepted unreservedly. Mr. Rhodes, indeed, went a step further than the rest; he guaranteed a contribution of vegetables from the De Beers garden; and the Colonel, not to be outdone, permitted the soup to be thickened with mealie meal.
Now watching these two men, at last I broke out laughing, and said, addressing them: "You are like two fires of green weeds in a mealie patch, and I am wondering which of you will be the first to break into flame or whether you will both be choked by the reek of your own thoughts."
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