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Südwest Cities
"His horse drowsed and collected dew while Mondaugen squirmed on the seat, trying to control anger, confusion, petulance; and below the farthest verge of the Kalahari, that vast death, the tardy sun mocked him." (p.229) "A kind of expatriate social life had indeed developed at the farm of one Foppl, in the northern part of the [Warmbad] district, between the Karas range and the marches of the Kalahari, and within a day's journey of Mondaugen's recovery station." (p.230) "He had an uninspiring view of ravines, grass, dry pans, dust, scrub; all repeating, undulating east to the eventual wastes of the Kalahari;" (p.235) "He rode her all over the territory. From the coastal desert to the Kalahari, from Warmbad to the Portuguese frontier, Firelily and he." (p.259)
Kalkfontein South [Index Entry] [Map] "One May morning in 1922 [...] a young engineering student named Kurt Mondaugen [...] arrived at a white outpost near the village of Kalkfontein South." (p.229)
Karas range [Index Entry] [Map] "A kind of expatriate social life had indeed developed at the farm of one Foppl, in the northern part of the [Warmbad] district, between the Karas range and the marches of the Kalahari, and within a day's journey of Mondaugen's recovery station." (p.230)
Keetmanshoop [Index Entry] [Map] "The first clear instance of it he could remember came one day during a trek from Warmbad to Keetmanshoop." (p.261) "Women could be inspanned to the heavy-duty carts to pull loads of silt dredged from the floor of the harbor; or to carry the rails for the road of iron being driven across the Namib toward Keetmanshoop." (p.269)
Lüderitz Bay [Index Entry] [Map] "The barren islets off Lüderitzbucht were natural concentration camps." (p.267) "[...] the year after Jacob Marengo died, on that terrible coast, where the beach between Lüderitzbucht and the cemetery was actually littered each morning with a score of identical female corpses [...]" (p.273)
"Women could be inspanned to the heavy-duty carts to pull loads of silt dredged from the floor of the harbor; or to carry the rails for the road of iron being driven across the Namib toward Keetmanshoop." (p.269)
Orange River [Index Entry] [Map] "Abraham Morris had crossed the Orange." (p.231) "Go to Warmbad, better yet keep going and get safely across the Orange." (p.232)
Portuguese frontier [Index Entry] [Map] "According to the Bondel version--which you may be sure has already spread to the Portuguese frontier--" (p.232)
Deutsch-Südwestafrika [Index Entry] [Map] "[...] finally to leave depression-time in Munich, journey into this other hemisphere, and enter mirror-time in the South-West Protectorate." (p.230) "Mondaugen, near the bottom of the list, drew South-West Africa, and was ordered to set up his equipment as close to 28 degrees S. as he conveniently could." (p.230) "'The Protectorate? But it's under the League of Nations.'" (p.243) "Foppl had first come to Südwestafrika as a young Army recruit." (p.245) "where, finally, humanity was reduced, out of a necessity which in his loonier moments he could almost believe was only Deutsch-Südwestafrika's [...] out of a confrontation the young of one's contemporaries." (p.274) "If you know a better party in the Southwest Protectorate,/tell us and we'll drop on by" (p.279)
Swakopmund [Index Entry] [Map] "A curious crew were thus thrown together. Many, of course, were German: rich neighbors, visitors from Windhoek and Swakopmund." (p.235) "Over Swakopmund the sun often seemed to fill the entire sky, so diffracted was it by the sea fog. [...] The harbor at Swakopmund was slowly, continuously filling with sand, men were felled mysteriously by the afternoon's sun, horses went mad and were lost in the tenacious ooze down along the beaches." (p.266)
Tropic of Capricorn [Index Entry] [Map] "north to a distant yellow exhalation that rose from far under the horizon and seemed to hang eternally over the Tropic of Capricorn." (p.235)
Union of South Africa [Index Entry] [Map] "But there were also Dutch and English from the Union." (p.235) "Upington. [...] it's the nearest large town in the Union." (p.251) "Surrounding the besieged Bondels, in a ragged noose, were whites, closing, mostly volunteer except for a cadre of Union officers and non-coms." (p.275) "Where does he live? South Africa?" (p.291)
Upington [Index Entry] [Map] "Upington. [...] it's the nearest large town in the Union." (p.251)
Warmbad [Index Entry] [Map] "One morning in 1922 (meaning nearly winter here in the Warmbad district) [...]" (p.229) "A kind of expatriate social life had indeed developed at the farm of one Foppl, in the northern part of the [Warmbad] district, between the Karas range and the marches of the Kalahari, and within a day's journey of Mondaugen's recovery station." (p.230) "'Your antennas, my Warmbad district,' the Boer said." (p.231) "Now listen to me, younker, if I were you I would go to Warmbad and stay there until this blows over." (p.232) "He rode her all over the territory. From the coastal desert to the Kalahari, from Warmbad to the Portuguese frontier, Firelily and he." (p.259) "and for Sarah, the sjambok, the dances of death between Warmbad and Keetmanshoop [...]" (p.273)
Waterberg [Index Entry] [Map] "Around Waterberg especially, he remembered, when they were chasing Hereros into the bush and the desert [...]" (p.257)
Windhoek [Index Entry] [Map] "Willem van Wijk, a minor extremity of the Administration of Windhoek." (p.229) "A curious crew were thus thrown together. Many, of course, were German: rich neighbors, visitors from Windhoek and Swakopmund." (p.235)
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