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GLOSSARY
Trektouw......A rawhide rope to which oxen are fastened for drawing
a wagon.
Tronk.......Jail or police station.
Tsetse.......A fly which follows the big game, especially the buffalo.
Its sting is deadly to all domestic animals, but not to
man. Veld (pronounced felt) . Grass pasture land, often erroneously written veldt. Vlei........Swampy ground or a small pond which contains water
during the rainy season. Voetgangers.....Name given to young locusts migrating before their
wings have grown. Voortrekkers .... Pioneers or Boers who first settled in the interior of
South Africa.
Vrouw.......A wife, a woman.
Witte Bergen .... White Mountains.
Zeekoe-Vlei.....Sea-cow (hippopotamus) hole.
Zwarte Bergen .... Black Mountains.
