Aletta — Bertram Mitford

The long room was packed full--full of male Boers of all ages: that is to say, from those in earliest manhood to the white-bearded great-grandfathers of the community--Boers of every type, Boers hairy, Boers shaven, moleskin-clad and collarless Boers, and Boers got up with near approach to European neatness; Boers small, dark, and wiry, still, after generations, preserving the outward characteristics of their Huguenot and French ancestry; Boers tall, large-limbed, fair, of Saxon aspect and descent.