The Odyssey of our Bushman Boy. 
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expedition into the Kalahari desert and up to the Zambesi River. These 
EngUsh were "groot, rijk mensche," — his expression for people of position 
and wealth; they had finely equipped wagons and barrels of water. Then 
they used to chop up and boil the samma melons in the Kalahari, and made 
coffee from the juice which ran out of the flesh of the melons through the 
actioniof the fire. He knows all the edible wild plants and roots, and tells 
