I had no means by me of deadening the After hostilities were concluded, Com-pain, so I tried to persuade myself that m: the hand on which 1 was performing, this a somebody which was not far from Here Theunis Pretorius found a complete the Kat
the wound healed very slowly. The! workshop for repairing guns, and a quan-women sprinkled finely-powdered sugar tity of 1 of war which Living-on it, and, from time to time, I had to, stone was sto remove the dead flesh with my pocket-/a breach of the knife; but gangrene set in after all.) of 1 ich Different remedies were employed, but; arm< nor ammunition should be supplied all seemed useless, for the black marks 0 the Kaffirs, and that they should not rose as far as the shoulder. Then they: be p-rmitted to provide either for them-killed a goat, took out the stomach and selves. cut it open I put my hand into it while it was still warm. This Boer remedy sueceerled, for, when it came to the turn of the second goat, my hand was already easier and the danger much less. The wound took over six months to heal, and, one) cru before it was quite cured, I was out hunt: Th" nes Itz accordingly cent ary's arsenal, and Beers out the slandered: in of the m cuters of the blacks.
in which I took part ing again.
T account for the healing power of this remedy by the fact that the goats usually near the Spekboom River, where all sorts of herbs grow in abundance. ander General Pretorius $53. artist the Kaffir and Makapaan. in the near Makapaansboort. This was an expedition to avenge
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