The story opens on the banks of the Severn at Tewkesbury and soon carries its young heroes to a farm in South Africa. Learning of a secret ravine of gold, they set off by wagon through elephant country and the waterless thirstland, shadowed all the way by the scheming Karl Engelbrecht and his men.
A boys’ adventure by a writer who knew the veld and its game well; its colonial outlook is of 1907. Download the free EPUB.