17/03/2026 08:11

---

They sat on the floor and ate straight from the pot, aporridge of maize meal flavoured with salty wind-dried fish. Golly gee! Shasa goggled at the array of large stones glittering with asoapy sheen. When each round loaf was crisped brown on the underside he flipped itover and let it cook through until it was brick hard; then he lifted itoff the fire and set it out to cool. We must delay anyannouncement until then, do it only when the exchange is closed.

Another hour before wereach Cape Town. They are going crazy, he whispered, and reached forthe handle of the foghorn. Shasa and David flew up to Windhoek in the Rapide to fetch Abe Abrahamsand his wife down for the wedding. I want to stay with you, he cried.