 | W. K. Ente - KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) - 1843 - 478 pages
...but which are not ripe until they fall from the tree; before they fall, they are nauseous (walgingh) and cause flatulency. The country swarms with cows,...— there are few sheep, but no want of elephants, rhinocerosps, lions, tigers, leopards, elands, and harts, as well of the Cape kind, as the Fatherland,... | |
 | John Sutherland - Khoikhoi (African people) - 1845 - 452 pages
...have a kind of apple, not unpleasant eating, but which are not ripe until they fall from the tree. The country swarms with cows, calves, oxen, steers,...do not catch or tame, although they approach within 10 or 12 paces; they are finely formed, and quite black, with long manes and tails, incredibly swift,... | |
 | J. S. Christopher - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1850 - 188 pages
...wild cherries. Finally they have an apple, not unpleasant eating, not ripe however till they fall; but before they fall they are nauseous and cause flatulency....rhinoceroses, lions, tigers, leopards, elands, and harts with branched horns: roebocks of various kinds, wild hogs, dogs, buffaloes, sea cows, crocodiles, and... | |
 | William Clifford Holden - Bantu-speaking peoples - 1866 - 574 pages
...with plenty of fish, and full of sea-cows." And among other things enumerated by them, they add: — "The country swarms with cows, calves, oxen, steers,...; there are few sheep, but no want of elephants." These quotations fully verify the fact that the country was at that early period thickly populated... | |
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There are also wild cherries (strand karsau) with long stalks, and very sour. Finally, they have a kind of apple, not unpleasant eating, but which are not ripe until they fall from the tree ; before they fall, they are nauseous (walgingh) and cause flatulency.... 