Very soon after gold was discovered in Johannesburg in 1886, my ancestors pitched up there. They never found gold, but they made a living in ancillary services. The Boer war did cause some havoc: the British locked up one of my great-grandfathers as a Boer spy, and sent another to a prison camp in Ceylon, where he spent much of the war playing chess while dodging tropical diseases. Mostly, though, the family found South Africa a comfortable place to be white.
1886年，在约翰内斯堡发现黄金后不久，我的祖先就奔赴那里。他们一直没有找到黄金，但依靠提供辅助服务来谋生。布尔战争(Boer war)确实给他们带来一些厄运：英国人把我的一位曾祖当成布尔间谍关押起来，还把另一位曾祖送往位于锡兰的战俘集中营，他在那里度过战争的大部分时间，一边下棋一边与热带病作斗争。不过，对于家族中的大部分人而言，作为白人，在南非的生活还是十分惬意的。
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