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Updated: May 12, 2025
As hunting him is attended with great danger, and the hunter, as already stated, may avoid him if he wishes, but few lions would be destroyed, were it not for a certain offensive habit to which they are addicted that of robbing the vee-boor of his horses and his cattle.
He admired their prettily-striped heads, their plump well-turned bodies, their light elegant limbs; in short, he admired everything about them, size, colour, and proportions. Never before had quaggas appeared so beautiful in the eyes of the vee-boor.
A very small stock for a vee-boor, or South African grazier. Withal our field-cornet was not unhappy. He looked around upon his three brave sons Hans, Hendrik, and Jan. He looked upon his cherry-cheeked, flaxen-haired daughter, Gertrude, the very type and image of what her mother had been. From these he drew the hope of a happier future.
The inmates of a dwelling placed beneath its friendly shelter, need never dread the fierce rays of the African sun; even the rain could scarce penetrate its leafy canopy. In fact, its dense foliage almost constituted a roof of itself. Had his cattle still remained to him, no doubt the vee-boor would have resolved at once to make this spot his future home.
He could have been contented, but for one thing the absence of his cattle. He had arrived at a beautiful pasture-ground a sort of oasis in the wild plains, where there were wood, water, and grass, everything that the heart of a "vee-boor" could desire. It did not appear to be a large tract, but enough to have sustained many hundred head of cattle enough for a very fine "stock farm."
The "vee-boor" would have been rejoiced at such a sight under other circumstances. But what to him now were all these fine pastures now that he was no longer able to stock them? Notwithstanding the beauty of the scene, his reflections were painful. But he did not give way to despair. His present troubles were sufficiently grievous to prevent him from dwelling much on the future.
Gertrude's father dying shortly after, the large farm, with its full stock of horses, and Hottentots, broad-tailed sheep, and long-horned oxen, became hers. This was an inducement for her soldier-husband to lay down the sword and turn "vee-boor," or stock farmer, which he consequently did. These incidents occurred many years previous to the English becoming masters of the Cape colony.
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