There were several corrals of gnarled poles lashed together, filled with fat cattle.
What we wanted was fat cattle at selling time.
"Suppose these fine fat cattle should stampede from the high pasture?"
Hundreds of fat healthy cattle charged along the ridge, shoving everything aside.
However, they are able to digest a greater amount of fat than can cattle.
The fat cattle, the likes of which they had not seen in the drought-stricken Basin, awed them.
"Look here, how rich we are, with our nice fat cattle", they boasted.
We had taken many fat cattle, and sheep, and goats.
'But see how many fine, fat cattle I have grazing in your field!'
At first, the Xhosa were ordered to destroy their fat cattle.