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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXI. PRETORIA--A WORD OR TWO ON THE TRANSVAAL--FIRST INTERVIEW WITH SIR OWEN LANYON--BOER SCARES--A LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING--DEFENSIVE ORGANIZATIONS AND DYNAMITE--D'ARCY'S HORSE--RUMOURS OF WARS--' WITH THE SHOW ' AT THE CAMP--ENTR'ACTE INTELLIGENCE--PIQUET DUTY--MY FIRST PATROL. On the 18th November, 1880, after twenty-seven days chiefly consumed in the most difficult, and I may add dangerous travel, we reached Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, and seat of the British Administration, then presided over by Sir W. Owen Lanyon. At the time of my arrival in its capital, the Transvaal was, through a number of fortuitous circumstances and the judicious advertising of land speculators, attracting considerable attention amongst intending emigrants, principally from Ireland; and having undertaken a series of papers on South Africa for the columns of a leading Dublin journal, I felt more exclusively interested in it than the previous portions of the country I had visited. The result of my inquiries and personal observation it may not be out of place to reproduce, as a hint to anyone contemplating a removal to brighter skies than those which shed lack-lustre over the countries of the Thames, the Clyde, and the Liffey. At the time of my visit, a number of self-constituted land companies appeared to be doing a profitable business, through their European agents, with the possessors of small capitals, who, lured by the glowing descriptions of the farms announced for sale, negotiated their purchases at home, and on their arrival in Pretoria found that their magnificent estates existed either in portions of the country where malaria and fever had taken up a permanent residence and held prior claims, or in the imagination of intelligent individuals who p...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 115010211X
- ISBN 13 9781150102110
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages134
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