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Adriaan and Seena had four children, who were reared in the same slapdash manner that prevailed at Rooi van Valck's, and to a degree, at the hartebeest huts of the Van Doorns. But she knew that the list was endless. No mud, no chamber pot emptyings, no kitchen slops, no pigs foraging. Colin Cochrane spent a day re-creating the old glories of Swellendam.

“Perhaps some things in this modern world do not change,” he said. At first he protested that he could feed himself but, like all men, he soon adjusted to being pampered. I’m here house-sitting and working on a paper. Beyond the family kraal, at the edge of the river, there was a level place where in the morning the wagtai