Between Sun and Sand

The book is the Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert. he was obliged to issue a hundred stand of Government arms to the Boers for the purpose of driving back the game which threatened to overrun those parts of Namaqualand where ground is cultivated. These people are dwellers in tents and beehive-shaped structures known as mat-houses a form of architecture adopted from the Hottentots. A wagon and a couple of tents or mat-houses constitutes the camp and castle of the Trek-Boer.