----- Vee-Boers
The time was just after the annexation, and our vee-boers, as introduced to the reader, were weeks away from their abandoned homes in the Transvaal. That they had permission to enter the territory of the Tebele, might be taken for granted, otherwise they would have been on dangerous ground. For its powerful and despotic chief was not the man to allow intrusion into his dominions, even by peaceful travellers.
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