Crossword-Solution: TREKKER 7 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Shepstone annexed the Transvaal, was struggling to carry on a divided scheme, that of grabbing with both hands from the Uitlander financialists, while endeavouring to maintain with close-fisted obstinacy the exclusiveness, irresponsibility, and bigotry of the primitive trekker.

With all its hardships and drawbacks--drought, wet, waterless out-spans, mudholes into which wheels sink axle deep, bad and flooded drifts, involving hours of labour, and perhaps the borrowing of a brother trekker's friendly span--heat, cold--everything--yet the sense of being on the move, the constant change of scene, even of climate--has a charm all its own.

Kapitein Hod deed nu eenige schreden voorwaarts met den vinger aan den trekker van zijn karabijn en spande zich in om met den blik tot in het achterste gedeelte van den val door te dringen.

That was the "mark of the beast." I knew then why this oasis had been left by transport-rider and trekker, as nature made it, untrodden and untouched.