weevilly

Updated: May 17, 2025

That has always been my fate when I plunged into commercial ventures. One night my wagons, which were overloaded with these confounded weevilly mealies, got stuck in the drift of a small tributary of the Tugela that most inopportunely had come down in flood. Just as darkness fell I managed to get them up the bank in the midst of a pelting rain that soaked me to the bone.

Henry Rider Haggard - Child of Storm