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Seven Years in South Africa.
A refreshing draught.
A refreshing draught.

A REFRESHING DRAUGHT.

In the woods were some fine trees, known amongst the Boers as beech, as well as a shrub erroneously called wild syringa. There were also wild olives and karee trees, mohatla and marethwa bushes; some shrubs with winged seed-vessels, like the maple, several kinds of mimosas (Acacia detinens,