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Kloof and Karroo choose

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[UK] H.A. Bryden Kloof and Karroo n.p.: The very smell of the water and the din of the huge frogs, cape nightingales as we call them.
at cape nightingale, n.
[UK] H.A. Bryden Kloof and Karroo 222: We adjourned [...] to Mr. Evans’s sanctum, to indulge in pipes and a glass of ‘Cape smoke’.
at cape smoke, n.
[UK] H.A. Bryden Kloof and Karroo 199: Klaus looked pretty well ‘baked’ even in his old leather ‘crackers’.
at cracker, n.1
[UK] H.A. Bryden Kloof and Karroo 347: There lay, outspanned, many a stout waggon [...] which carried some seventy or eighty families of Dopper Boers. The Doppers are a sect holding religious views more severe and savage even than those of Calvinists.
at Dopper, n.
[UK] H.A. Bryden Kloof and Karroo 82: If you want a funny story, you may always get one from a Tottie, on the subject of these creatures.
at tottie, n.1
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