INEZ We had sighted the house from far away shortly after sunrise and by midday we were there.

As we approached I saw that it stood almost immediately beneath two great baobab trees, babyan trees we call them in South Africa, perhaps because monkeys eat their fruit.

It was a thatched house with whitewashed walls and a stoep or veranda round it, apparently of the ordinary Dutch type.

Moreover, beyond it, at a little distance were other houses or rather shanties with waggon sheds, etc., and beyond and mixed up with these a number of native huts.

Further on were considerable fields green with springing corn; also we saw herds of cattle grazing on the slopes.