Diary of a tour in South Africa . LUNCH AT THE CAVES. .6iA « hj AU\. Diary of a Tour in South Africa. 53 cases as large and lofty as in a cathedral of thelargest dimensions. It was insufferably hot inthe Caves, and in many cases very slippery, sothat after an hours groping about in the semi-darkness of candle-light, and with a plentiful useof magnesium ribbon in the larger chambers,we all thought wed had about enough of , our guide, a Dutch boy of aboutfourteen, could not understand English, andwe had some difficulty with him, but I man-aged to make him understand a good manyth
Diary of a tour in South Africa . LUNCH AT THE CAVES. .6iA « hj AU\. Diary of a Tour in South Africa. 53 cases as large and lofty as in a cathedral of thelargest dimensions. It was insufferably hot inthe Caves, and in many cases very slippery, sothat after an hours groping about in the semi-darkness of candle-light, and with a plentiful useof magnesium ribbon in the larger chambers,we all thought wed had about enough of , our guide, a Dutch boy of aboutfourteen, could not understand English, andwe had some difficulty with him, but I man-aged to make him understand a good manythings with the help of German, and as I hadnot been able to get him to understand anyEnglish, I naturally tried to make him under-stand in German that we wanted to Go out,and tried all the words in that language whichhad any sort of connection with getting out-side again—all without result. Then Guntripsimply said to him, Go out, and out we really do the youth an injustice in sayingthat he knew no English. Being commissioned 54 Diary of a Tour in South Afr
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