Overlander

The Overland Riders walked their horses after making the turn, there being no need for haste, as no one believed that the lumberjacks would follow, and further, the Overlanders were looking for a suitable camping place for the night.

Sarah was a nurse from Devon and an “overlander”, one of our group of 20 travelling across Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia in a Mercedes-Benz truck.

The overlanders are, nearly all, men in the prime of youth, whose occupation it is to convey large herds of stock from market to market, and from colony to colony.

The first overlander was Mr. Darcy Uhr, who arrived from Queensland with cattle in 1872.