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sometimes snapping down through the gears andswinging out of the ruts to cut her own way around a bad stretch. There had been no wind since the previous day, so the lion's tracks werestill clearly etched and uneroded, even in that loose soil. Leading them was Vark Jan', or Pig John', the old Khoisan warrior withhis yellow wrinkled features that bespoke his mixed lineage of Nama andBerg-dama and, so he boasted, of even the true Bushman. You must take off your coat and your shirt, she said, and he could notreply.

Let's go and have a look anyway. God will provide. I have chosen a totem for our brotherhood, Moses went on. The nearest was theGerman School at Swakopmund, thirty kilometres away.