He values the Bible above every other thing.

The most delicious edible in South Africa is "biltong." You will have seen it mentioned in Olive Schreiner's books.

It is what our plainsmen call "jerked beef." It is the Boer's main standby.

He has a passion for it, and he is right.
If I had the command of the campaign I would go with rifles only, no cumbersome Maxims and cannon to spoil good rocks with.

I would move surreptitiously by night to a point about a quarter of a mile from the Boer camp, and there I would build up a pyramid of biltong and Bibles fifty feet high, and then conceal my men all about.