but they will live where the Africanders would starve, and with a moderate load can make five miles a day better going, being quicker and not so liable to become footsore. What is more, this lot were thoroughly "salted," that is, they had worked all over South Africa, and so had become proof, comparatively speaking, against red water, which so frequently destroys whole teams of oxen when they get on to strange "veldt" or grass country.
Are gehiago, talde hau erabat "zaildurik" zegoen, alegia, Hego Afrikan lan egiten arituak ziren, eta prest zeuden, besteen aldean gutxienez, ur gorriari aurre egiteko, horrek askotan akabatu bait ditu idi talde osoak"veld" edo belardien lurraldera iristean.