Everybody has heard of it, and nobody knows it.' 'I wish you would tell me what you have heard.' 'Well, the natives are queer up thereaways.

There's some kind of a holy place which every Kaffir from Algoa Bay to the Zambesi and away beyond knows about.

When I've been hunting in the bush-veld I've often met strings of Kaffirs from hundreds of miles distant, and they've all been going or coming from Blaauwildebeestefontein.

It's like Mecca to the Mohammedans, a place they go to on pilgrimage.

I've heard of an old man up there who is believed to be two hundred years old.