BILTONG • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Biltong

... Canadians, and the Queenslanders, were posted at Belmont under Colonel Pilcher. The enemy had no fixed camping ground. Mounted on hardy Basuto ponies, carrying no provisions but a few mealies and a little biltong, armed only with rifles, they sweep incessantly from place to place, and are an everlasting source of annoyance to us. At one moment they may be hovering in the kopjes around us at Enslin, waiting to get a chance to sneak into the kopjes that immediately overlook ...

— Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) - Letters from the Front • A. G. Hales