Seven Years in South Africa, Volume 2

Zeerust -- Arrival at Linokana -- Harvest-produce -- The lion-ford on the Marico -- Silurus-fishing -- Crocodiles in the Limpopo -- Damara-emigrants -- A narrow escape -- The Banks of the Notuany -- The Puff-adder valley.

We could see Jacobsdal from the Weltufrede farm, a few buildings on the banks of a brook, and a neat little church, being all that this embryo town of the western Transvaal had then to show. After leaving it we turned north, then north-east towards Zeerust, the most important settlement in the Marico district. On our way thither we passed one of the most productive farms in the neighbourhood; it belonged to a man named Bootha, and was traversed by the Malmani, which wound its way through a low rocky ridge to its junction with the Marico.