The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa (1861)
Casalis, Eugène Arnaud, b. 1812 · London, J. Nisbet · leaf 177
re iron. The greater part of the country they inhabit is rich in ore. In order to see the working of it we must leave the village, and direct our steps towards that clump of trees, from which a cloud of smoke arises. We shall find there a circular fireplace, on which is heaped up a large quantity… … from dross are nearly as hard as SPATULAS. steel, which doubtless arises from the immediate contact of charcoal with the ore.
Sotho (African people)
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