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Title: A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari
Seven Tales of South-West Africa

Author: Frederick Cornell

Release Date: June 22, 2007 [EBook #21899]

Language: English

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A RIP VAN WINKLE OF THE KALAHARI AND
OTHER TALES OF SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

A RIP VAN WINKLE OF
THE KALAHARI
AND OTHER TALES OF SOUTH-WEST
AFRICA

SEVEN STORIES

BY

FREDERICK CARRUTHERS CORNELL

CAPETOWN: T. MASKEW MILLER
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

A RIP VAN WINKLE OF THE KALAHARI
INTRODUCTORY
I - THE BLUE DIAMOND
II - DEAD MEN IN THE DUNES
III - THE SAND-STORM
IV - THE PANS AND THE POISON FLOWERS
V - I LOSE INYATI
VI - THE CRATER THE PLEASANT BERRIES SLEEP AND THE AWAKENING
VII - THE COUNTRY OF CRATERS, THE PATH OF SKULLS, AND THE SNAKE
VIII - THE CATACLYSM THE PRIESTESS "LOOK AND FORGET"
IX - FORTY YEARS! THE AWAKENING

THE SALTING OF THE GREAT NORTH-EASTERN FIELDS, BEING AN EPISODE IN THE
LIFE OF DICK SYDNEY, PROSPECTOR
CHAPTER I
II
III
IV
V

THE FOLLOWER

THE PROOF

"BUSHMAN'S PARADISE"

"THE DRINK OF THE DEAD"

THE WATERS OF ERONGO

PREFACE

MOST of these stories were written on the veldt; at odd times, in out-
of-the-way prospecting camps, in the wilds of the Kalahari Desert, or
of that equally little-known borderland between Klein Namaqualand, and
Gordonia, Cape Colony, and what was at that time known as German South-
West Africa.

Four of them appeared a few years back in The State an illustrated
magazine now unhappily defunct; the others, though written about the
same time, have never been published.

And now, time and circumstances have combined to bring the scene in
which they are laid most prominently before the public.

Through the dangerous and difficult barrier of the desert sandbelt that
extends all along the coast, General Botha and his formidable columns
forced their way to Windhuk; from the remote lower reaches of the
Orange River ot