mopani

And then beyond—across the plains, grown with mopani bush—the road was all deep sand.

Then there was silence again in the mopani forest, where lay three motionless human bodies; dead silence, for—hours, it seemed.

“Peters picked him up in the mopani veldt, down Pagadi way, and brought him on,” said Lamont.

And now, through its lifting folds, rises in dark loom the jagged silhouette of the mopani stockade.

For a sudden fusillade had opened on that side, and the chips were flying wildly from the mopani poles.