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Excerpt from Empires of the Veld Many books have been written about the late Boer war, but there exists so much ignorance in regard to the late Republics and their inhabitants that I thought I might do a service to the conquerors as well as to the conquered by publishing my observations and impressions of the unwritten history and the social inner life of the latter, collected during a sojourn of forty-five years amongst them. During that period I have had opportunities of hearing and seeing more than the average traveller. This was owing to my profession of Government land-surveyor, which compelled me to stay many days in their homes and in their company. A year before the said war I published a small pamphlet in the Dutch language, containing various observations, part of which I have translated into English and reproduced in the following pages. I came to the country in 1855, when a good many of the pioneers were still alive - people who had taken part in the Cape Colonial wars, under English Governors and along with English troops, against the Xosas, Gaikas, Tembus, and other native tribes. 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.