V2nd - Chapter 9 - a sentence that would not fit on Twitter

[Michael Bailey]

first, who was Jacob Marengo?
http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=S%C3%BCdwest

"probably the most important Nama leader in the war against the
Germans. Strangely, for a fairly race-conscious people, he was of
mixed ancestry (his father was Nama, his mother Herero). Educated on a
mission, he spoke at least three "white" languages (German, Afrikaans
and English) in addition to Nama and Herero. He managed to elude the
Schutztruppe for a long time, pulling off daring raids and then
escaping over the Oranje River into South Africa. As a Bondelswaartz
chief Morenga was unique in that his fighters consisted of both Herero
and Nama, at least in the early stages of his campaign. He was
supplied by (mostly) English traders, who were encouraged by a British
government quite happy to embarrass the cousin Kaiser. Only when the
British and German governments decided to cooperate, launching a raid
from South Africa using combined forces, was he defeated and killed
(he was shot dead on September 17, 1907). Unlike many other resistance
leaders, he tended not to kill his prisoners. "