South Africa
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Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: South Africa History / Africa / General History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa Travel / Africa / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy th...
MoreVolume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1878 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: South Africa History / Africa / General History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa Travel / Africa / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. ENGLISH HISTORY. I Have to say that I feel almost ashamed of the headings given to these initiatory chapters of my book as I certainly am not qualified to write a history of South Africa. Nor, were I ahle to do so, could it be done in a few pages. And, again, it has already been done and that so recently that there is not as yet need for further work of the kind. But it is not possible to make intelligible the present condition of any land without some reference to its antecedents. And as it is my object to give my reader an idea of the country as I saw it I am obliged to tell something of what I myself found it necessary to learn before I could understand that which I heard and saw. When I left England I had some notion more or less correct as to Hottentots, Bushmen, Kafirs, and Zulus. Since that my mind has gradually become permeated with Basutos, Griquas, Bechuanas, Amapondos, Suazies, Gaikas, Galekas, and various other native races, -- who are supposed to have disturbed our serenity in South Africa, but whose serenity we must also have disturbed very much, -- till it has become impossible to look at the picture without realizing something of the identity of those people. I do not expect to bring anyreaders to do that. I perhaps have been filling my mind with the subject for as many months as the ordinary reader will take hours in turning over these pages. But still I must ask him to go back a little with me, ...
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