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Excerpt from A Lost Legionary in South Africa "Daily Chronicle," 12th August 1911. "The book gives us something of the bracing air of the land of the Maories, with a few genuine pictures, lightly touched, of the tough characters, the hard nails, the queer cards of the old Colonial days." "The Sketch," 23rd August 1911. "Little Englanders, read at once Maori Browne's With the Lost Legion in New Zealand, mark the unadvertised heroism, the fierce bravery, the silent sufferings of the pioneers who fought in the New Zealand War from 1866 - 1871, and have the strength of mind to be converted. And Imperialists, go and do likewise! The book is of supreme interest." "Book Monthly," August 1911. "A book of real new adventure and fighting, also valuable for its information." "Birmingham Daily Post," 18th August 1911. "Colonel Hamilton-Browne, in his downright straightforward way, has given us as realistic a picture of bush fighting as we have ever read. ... Almost every page is crowded with incident, for the most part, of gallant conduct, cruelty or hardship, but just occasionally of humour. The whole book is vastly interesting, and written in an eminently modest vein." "The London Observer," 1st September 1911. "The story is admirably told, and is brimful of interest and excitement." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.