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Diamond Dyke, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: W. Boucher
Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24821]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Diamond Dyke, by George Manville Fenn.
_______________________________________________________________________A most authentic-seeming book about the difficulties a pair of young Britons faced when they went to South Africa, and set up an ostrich farm in the dry and largely empty veldt. They had a married couple of the locals to help them, and of these the man wasn't much use. They also had a most sagacious dog, who figures largely in the story. One of the enemies they had to face was lions.
One day they found they needed more stores, so young Dyke, barely sixteen years of age, has to go on a six or seven day journey to the farm of the nearest honest storekeeper, a fat old German, seventy years of age. On the way back there is a serious delay due to a flash flood which took several days to clear. But when they get back they find that the older brother is seriously ill of an African fever. The local people had b