Excerpt from South African SketchesWe had arrived at Karroo Poort at eight in the evening, after having crossed the sunbaked 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.It was our seventh day out from Du Toit's Pan, and, except for one pause of three hours at Richmond, and another of two hours at Murraysberg, we had had no halts longer than those necessary for a change of mule-teams, and a hurried meal here and there.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.