STOKP (pro. stoop) (D), a raised promenade or paved verandah in front 

 or at sides of a house. 



TAMBUKI GRASS, also TAMBOOKIE, and sometimes TAMBUTI (N), a very 



rank grass ; in places reaches I 5 ft. high and stem diameter in. 

 TICK, or RHINOCEROS, BIRD, the 'ox-pecker' (Buphaga Africana). 

 TIGER. In South Africa the leopard is generally called a tiger ; first so 



described by the Dutch tijger. 

 TOCK-TOCKIE, a slow-moving beetle, incapable of flight. Gets its 



name from its means of signalling by rapping the abdomen on 



the ground (tenebrionid beetle of the genus Psammodes). 

 TREK (D) (lit. to pull), to move off or go on a journey; a journey, 



an expedition e.g., the Great Trek (or exodus of Boers from 



Cape Colony, 1836-48); also, and commonly, the time, distance, 



or journey from one outspan to another. 

 TREK GEAR, the traction gear, chain, yokes, &c., of a waggon. The 



Boer pioneers had no chains, and used reiins plaited into a stout 



' rope ' ; hence trek-touw, or pulling-rope. 

 TSESSEBE, an antelope, one of the hartebeeste family (Damaliscus luna- 



tus; Dutch, bastard hartebeeste). Height, 48 in.; weight. 300 Ibs.; 



horns, 15 in. 

 TSETSE FLY, a grey fly, little larger than the common house fly, whose 



bite is fatal to domesticated animals. 

 TWIGGLE, little people's word for the excited movement of a small 



dog's tail, believed to be a combination of wriggle and twiddle. 



UMFAAN (N), a boy. 



UMGANAAM (N), my friend. 



UMLUNGU (N), the native word to describe a white man. 



VELD (pro. felt) (D), the open or unoccupied country ; uncultivated 



or grazing land. 

 VLEI (fro. flay) (D), a small, shallow lake, a swamp, a depression 



intermittently damp, a water meadow. 

 VOORLOOPER (D) (lit. front walker), the leader, the boy who leads the 



front oxen ; the paf-intambu (Zulu for ' take the reim '). 

 VOORSLAG (pro. foor-slaach) (D) (lit. front lash or skin), the strip of 



buck hide which forms the fine end of a whip-lash. 



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