STOEP (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' (Euphaga 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) (//'/. 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 reims 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, 4 8 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 (pro. flay) (D), a small, shallow lake, a swamp, a depression 



intermittently damp, a water meadow. 

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



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

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



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



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