rail-less

Updated: April 30, 2025

'The old Pioneer is now dead, he told us, 'as dead as the Dodo or the Great Auk. 'No more need we shiver in our Kaffir blankets at Kaffir Stores 'fifty miles from the dead-ends of rail-less post-towns. "Le roi est mort." Malaria is dead or dying so far as Alexandra is concerned. We Alexandrians are now becoming wholesome Englishmen in a wholesome White Man's country.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales