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Secret Service in South Africa choose

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[SA] A.D. Richardson Secret Service 75: The leaders refused to take their own medicine .
at take one’s medicine (v.) under medicine, n.
[SA] A.D. Richardson Secret Service 34: The New Yorker was swift to explain that he was very ‘sound,’ favoring no compromise which would not give the slave holders all they asked for [DA].
at sound, adj.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 70: He passed the detective office and whispered ‘Ikona’ – that most comprehensive negative in any language – to the native constable at the door.
at aikona!, excl.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service 80: Within a month he either owned or had a line on [...] enough paraffin lamps to supply a coolie temple with illumination on the Coolie Christmas.
at coolie Christmas (n.) under coolie, adj.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 74: An Indian coolie woman entered.
at coolie, adj.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 4: Against the intimidation and corruption of British-born telegraph officials by certain Boer Commandants may be fairly set off that colossal blunder, the institution of the corps of ‘Hand Uppers’ by the British General Commanding.
at handsupper (n.) under hand, n.1
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 51: Today Jim is a standing example to his race of what can be done on the Rand by a native with £2 10s. a month.
at Jim, n.1
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 183: Here and there one comes upon creatures who have chosen deliberately the lot of the white Kaffir. They are invariably degenerates.
at white kaffir (n.) under kaffir, n.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 182: Most of the whites living in seclusion with native wives have much the same excuse. [...] Naturally, any social relationship with white neighbours ceased [...] and in the course of a few years the white Kaffir has become absolutely irreclaimable.
at white kaffir (n.) under kaffir, n.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 147: A taste for something more potent than the harmless Kaffir beer.
at kaffir beer (n.) under kaffir, adj.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 41: They knew that their warning would be rewarded by permanent facilities for securing cheap ‘puza’. [Ibid.] 53: He could purchase half a bottle of puza for a shilling.
at phuza, n.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 7: He found one document to be an offer by Frickkie Oosthuizen (whom he knew and suspected of Rooinek sympathies).
at rooinek, n.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 76: Say you are guilty and get off with a month in tronk. It’s not bad in our tronk. No hard work, plenty of skoff.
at scoff, n.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 60: The Kaffir is a ludicrous failure at fraud, duplicity, and that low smartness which the Boers describe by the adjective ‘slim’.
at slim, adj.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 72: He knows where and how to obtain [...] a tickie.
at tickey, n.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 76: Say you are guilty and get off with a month in tronk. It’s not bad in our tronk. No hard work, plenty of skoff.
at tronk, n.
[SA] Blackburn & Caddell Secret Service in S. Afr. 283: There had been much rough chaff and many threats indulged in at the expense of the Zarps on duty.
at zarp, n.
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