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Identifier: naturalistintran00dist (find matches)
Title: A naturalist in the Transvaal
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Distant, William Lucas, 1845-1922
Subjects: Zoology -- South Africa Transvaal Transvaal (South Africa) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, R.H. Porter
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ival thedoings of some of our modern travellers who write bigbooks and receive great receptions. I have sought to be impartial to the Boer, whom Irespect but cannot love; and my principal remarksapply to the real Boers, the farmers, the dwellers 011 theplains, and not to the official Kriigers, Jouberts, Smits,and others, who really constitute the Boer aristocracy,and no more represent the average population than theinhabitants of the West-end of London are typical of thereal population of England. The shadows are deepen-ing over these hardy farmers, the pen will conquer whatthe sword could not subdue, and they must be eitherabsorbed in or fly from the busy mercantile populationthat is now surrounding and must ultimately dispossessthem. In the nineteenth century there seems no roomfor this old pastoral life, especially when nature hasbaited the soil with auriferous deposits ; but I shall everremember the family wagon of the Boer when my fancyrecalls the peaceful wilderness of the veld.
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Cliera proynv. Male in nuptial plumage. CHAPTER III. PHASES OF NATURE ABOUND PRETORIA. Natural aspects in the dry winter season.—Orthoptera and Coleoptera.—Commencement of the rainy season.—Protective resemblance in butter-flies.—Vegetable tanning-products. — Survival of spiued and Lard-wooded trees in the struggle for existence with herbivorous fauna.—Baboons. — Bad roads.—A Boer farm.—Grass-fires. — Dust-storm.—Vast quantities of beetles under stones.—Bad weather and heavy lossesin live stock.—Appearance of winged Termites.—Swollen streams andtheir dangers.—Accidental dangers in animal life.—Birds of Prey. To a naturalist who has seen the glorious profusion PHASES OF NATURE AROUND PRETORIA. 39 of plant and animal life in the Eastern tropics, thebare, withered, treeless veld as it appears in the neigh-bourhood of Johannesburg and Pretoria at the end ofthe dry or winter season is most dispiriting. The fewthorny acacias are almost universally destitute o

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