Excerpt from South African Sketches WE had arrived at Karroo Poort at eight in the evening, after having crossed the sun baked and dusty Karroo, with its hundreds upon hundreds of dry bones bleaching white by the roadside - the skeletons of oxen, mules, and horses, extending in an almost unbroken line all the way from Patatas River - and learned from the guard of the Transport Waggon the welcome intelligence that a halt of two hours would be allowed for supper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.