Douse the Glim Traditional Cache

The cache is a quick park and grab cache and might help to make the long drive in this part of the country a little more interesting.  There is safe parking. BYOP

There are two apparent sources for this enigmatic name of a farmstead some distance to the east.

The first story tells of a Scottish regiment  encamped here in the Nothern Cape in 1902 during the  Anglo-Boer  War. To keep their location a secret, at dusk the sergeants would tell the troops to 'douse the glim', or put out their lights. 

The second story, and the one I prefer, is based on the time where a tired surveyor who, in his tent one night, somewhat irately told his assistant  “Och, Douse the Glim and go to sleep mon!"