"Гендрик ван Блоом was a bore.My young reader, do not think, that I want to express some neglect to минхеру ван Блоому, naming his bore. In our nice Капской colony of boraxes is a farmer. To name a man a farmer is not reproach. Van Блоом and was a farmer - Dutch farmer on Капской earth, otherwise speaking - by a bore.The boraxes of the Капской colony played a noticeable role in the newest history. Peaceful on storage of character, they appeared however engaged in the row of wars - and with the natives of Africa and with Europeans - and proved the valour, that peaceful people, when it is needed, are able to battle not worse than those, who all sense of the life sees in robbery military glory".