tent-sail

Updated: May 3, 2025

Then the White Man crept back to his bed, and the shivering natives, fortified with gin, or squareface, as it is called locally, took refuge on the second wagon, drawing a tent-sail over them. For awhile there was silence, save for the moaning of the huddled and restless cattle. "If the snow goes on I shall lose my oxen," he said to himself; "they can never bear this cold."

Henry Rider Haggard - Nada the Lily