S was a Sacchi, be-booted and hatted.

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A close gazoon the horsemen made, Douglas and Morison the head, And through the ranks impetuous bore, By dint of lance and broad claymore, […]

Around, as far as the eye can see, there stretches the bare and dreary-looking plain. The Veld, as this plain is called, has a reddish soil, dry, barren, and dusty, with here and there at considerable intervals a straggling bush or a clump of thorn-shrubs.