Mafeking Mooch Mafeking Mooch The Mafeking Mooch was an affected style of walking performed by some British men during the first decade of the 20th century to give the impression that they had been injured during the celebrated siege and/or relief of Mafeking. The town of Mafeking was home to one of the major British garrisons besieged at the start of the Second Boer War in October 1899. The 1,200 men of the garrison withstood assault for 217 days. The siege was finally lifted on 17 May 1900, when British forces commanded by Colonel B. T. Mahon of the army of Lord
Mafeking, Victoria from 30 feet to 70 feet in thickness, and values are confined to the lower layers. Small auriferous quartz veins have been found in the granitic rock, but are too small to pay for mining." The small goldfield yielded 1t of gold from alluvial deposits and from quartz veinlets in a weathered I-type granite pluton of Devonian age. Many tektites were found in the alluvial gravels at Mafeking. Mafeking, Victoria Mafeking is a locality in Victoria south east of Grampians National Park and near the town of Willaura. "In 1900 there was a large rush to the Grampians area south