Crossword-Solution: BASTERS 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Commandant Wessels, three burghers and myself rode to the Drift--"Basters Drift"--to see whether the stream was still fordable.

The red blood of the Basters boiled in the captain’s veins, and he said somewhat thickly: “Look here, my lad, I don’t want any more of your tricks! You play another on me, and I’ll give you the soundest licking you ever had in your life!” The serenity on the Terror’s face broke up into an expression of the deepest pain: “Whatever’s the matter?” he said in a tone of amazement.

When a coat is in question, it is no longer the master-tailor, journeyman and apprentices who prepare it, but a legion of cutters, basters, machinists, pressers, fellers, button-hole, and general workers, who find the learning of any one alone of the branches an easy matter, and so rush into the trade, the fiercest and most incessant competition being the instant result.

Now you go right ahead and tend to them basters." Sternsilver retired at once to the far end of the workroom, where he proceeded to relieve his outraged feeling by criticising Hillel Fatkin's work in excellent imitation of his employer's bullying manner.

The Basters intermarried between themselves, and travellers testify to the fertility of these unions.