th Africa; he felthimself to beamanof Africa-an African-and he did not want that honorable word applied only to blacks. Then he returned to himself: The years roll past so swiftly, and we are so many miles from the families we knew at De Kraal and Graaff-Reinet. Piet Krause led a delegation of schoolteachers to Pretoria to plead for Christoffel's life, and Reverend Brongers 'The English,' he insisted, 'do not put ground glass in people's food.
They would then dis- mount, wait till three in the morning, when attention was always at a minimum, sweep in, disrupt the horses, and fight any person- nel that might be afoot. We know its charac- teristics completely: twelve hundred degrees Celsius, pressure sixty-two thousand times greater than here at the surface. ' Krause began in his monotone to chant the words, joined quickly by Krog, whose efforts augmented the dissonance. We must tell Jan Christian Smuts that he cannot bludgeon us into this war on the wrong side.
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