[…] he was broodingly unable to see even the most ivied tower as anything but a pile of stones till, inexplicably, the miracle of recovered hope and courage transformed him.

A snaky neck coiled, and it was coming down at us, and it was all teeth. “Tyrannosaurus Regina,” Aaron whispered. “Cretaceous period. Meat-eater.”

Yet as with the American South, there is a distinctly caricaturable quality to rural Afrikanerdom, and the sophisticated Afrikaners of Johannesburg and Cape Town enjoy making fun of them.

In the Lower Yangtze plain section of Chekiang, rice is associated with winter wheat and with silk and cotton. Cotton is also cultivated-on the south shore of Hangchow Bay, chiefly around Yüyao, from where it is shipped to Shanghai and Ningpo.