Botmar

Botmar family, as though we were not all the children of one God -- except the black Kaffirs, who are the children of the devil.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Here in the Transkei the widow Botmar and my father were near neighbours, their steads being at a distance from each other of about three hours upon horseback, or something over twenty miles.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Botmar, his vrouw, his daughter Suzanne and the young Englishman,

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890

After this came a paragraph from an English newspaper published in Capetown, dated not two years before, and headed "Strange Tale of the Sea," which paragraph, with some few errors, told the story of the finding of Ralph -- though how the writing man knew it I know not, unless it was through the tutor with the blue spectacles of whom I have spoken -- and said that he was still living on the farm of Jan Botmar in the Transkei.

Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890