smous

One day a "smous", that is a low kind of white man, often a Jew, who travels about trading with unsophisticated Boers and Kaffirs, and cheating them if he can, called at the station with his cartful of goods.

Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Did a smous (traveling salesman) present a coveted item with a flourish — or suggest that it should be coveted in the first place?

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England and had been a smous (a petty salesman) on the Capetown docks.

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Calling to Hans to make the smous comfortable and give him food, I went into my own room, and there read the letter, which ran thus:

Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The smous was summoned and asked about the ship which brought the letter from Delagoa.

Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Station in the Cape Colony by the hand of a wandering smous, and of my desperate ride upon the swift mare to Port Elizabeth, where I just succeeded in catching the brig Seven Stars before she sailed.

Marie An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain Henry Rider Haggard 1890