Ironically the award for the best team of draft horses was three gallons of oil.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
But in consideration of the valuable aid rendered, at any rate, by Gerard, to the king's troops, and further as some compensation for the detention and peril they had undergone, at the hands of those who were, after all, the king's subjects, he proposed that Sobuza should award them a share in the cattle seized from the Igazipuza.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Recovering their own property was one thing, claiming an award out of the "eaten-up" cattle seemed very much another.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford