AtD page 169: Ape Train

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Of course (not that I know the cant, but no reason to distrust the source)

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On June 15, 2018 4:06 PM, Matt Bormet <mattkbormet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perfect - thank you! If you don't object I'll add to the wiki.
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> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 5:36 AM, <protomen at protonmail.com> wrote:
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>> I assume you'd want to backtranslate it to Afrikaans? "A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American" simply gives aap as slang for dagga:
>>>Whence aap trein (lit. aap train), the smoking of dagga. Both in letter of May 23, 1946, from C. P. Wittstock.
>> https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.184128/2015.184128.A-Dictionary-Of-The-Underworld#page/n13/mode/2up
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>> On June 14, 2018 10:20 PM, Matt Bormet <mattkbormet at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Anyone know what this is a reference to?
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>>> "Soon after his arrival in Johannesburg, Fleetwood was well aboard what the
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>>> smokers of dagga called the Ape Train."
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>>> What's the Ape Train? Anyone got a timetable?
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>>> Matt B
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