He could not visit the scherms of the other Hottentots; all were in the service of Trek-Boers, and the boycott against him was strict.
At evening the Hottentot servants drove in the oxen, inspanned them to the wagons, and drove out to the various scherms for the purpose of bringing back the game to the different camping-places.
This we found deserted, but the size and extent of the scherms still standing there showed that at least two thousand men must have been lately in camp in them.
Coming out of the bush on the near edge of the vlei, before going down into it, I saw fires lit, and scherms and figures showing dark against the fires right along the opposite edge of the vlei.
It was quite light now and they saw us from the scherms all the way, but they just looked at us and we at them, and so we went along.
We skirted the vlei to our left, got round the end of it, and at once rode through a lot of scherms containing hundreds of people.
So Hendrick was sent to the scherms of our followers to call for volunteers--men who knew the country well--who would act as guides as well as carry our baggage.
The dwellers in these scherms were of the same ill-favoured type as my guides.
In one of the scherms was a newly-born baby, a girl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scherms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
