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He spoke in English for thefirst time that day. They were drifting past a high sheer bank of red clay bright as a bloodorange that was perforated by thousands of perfectly round apertures,and he Volk, but also related to the ReverendTromp Bierman, boxing champion, author, and the new dominie ofStellenbosch. They sat together until the sun touched thewaters of the bay and turned them to molten copper, and then