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The Memoirs of Paul Kruger: Four Times President of the South African Republic; Told by Himself (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
MR. KRUGER dictated these Memoirs to M. H. C. Bredell, his private secretary, and to M. Piet GrobIer, the former Under Secretary of State of the South African Republic. These gentlemen handed their notes to an editor, the Rev. Dr. L~. Schowalter, who spent several weeks at Utrecht in constant colloquy with Mr. Kruger, elucidating various points with the aid of the President's replies to a list of some hundred and fifty to two hundred questions which Dr. Schowalter had drawn up. The English and American edition has been translated by M. A. Teixeira de Mattos from Dr. Schowalter's revised German text, colla ted line for line with M. Kruger's original Dutch; with this difference that, in this edition, M. Kruger speaks in the first person throughout, whereas, in the Continental editions, the narrative is allowed to change into the third person from the point at which he begins to attain a prominent p
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CHAPTER I; EARLY DAYS AND PRIVATE LIFE; Homeless-In the new home-Hunting adventuresKruger; kills his :first lion-The dead lion roars-Further; lion-hunts-Panther and rhinoceros huntingUnder; a rhinoceros-Buffalo hunting-A :fight with a; buffalo-cow-Elephant hunting-Race between Kruger; and an elephant-Canine :fidelity-Kruger amputates; PAGE; his own thumb 1; CHAPTER II; COMMENCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTIVITY; Journey to the Sand River in 185:2-The Sand River; Convention-Punitive expedition against the Kaffir; Chief Secheli-Kruger's life in danger-Vindictive; raid on the Kaffir chiefs Makapaan and MapelaKruger; alone in the cave among the besieged KaffirsHe; recovers Potgieter's body-Expedition against; Montsioa-Kruger charges a band of Kaffirs singlehanded; 35; CHAPTER III; IN A POSITION OF COMMAND; The :first Basuto "Var-Kruger assists the Orange Free; State against the Basutos and negotiates the peace with; Moshesh-Kruger as general in the :field against the; Kaffir chief Gasibone 53; vii CHAPTER IV; THE
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CHAPTER I; EARLY DAYS AND PRIVATE LIFE; Homeless-In the new home-Hunting adventuresKruger; kills his :first lion-The dead lion roars-Further; lion-hunts-Panther and rhinoceros huntingUnder; a rhinoceros-Buffalo hunting-A :fight with a; buffalo-cow-Elephant hunting-Race between Kruger; and an elephant-Canine :fidelity-Kruger amputates; PAGE; his own thumb 1; CHAPTER II; COMMENCEMENT OF PUBLIC ACTIVITY; Journey to the Sand River in 185:2-The Sand River; Convention-Punitive expedition against the Kaffir; Chief Secheli-Kruger's life in danger-Vindictive; raid on the Kaffir chiefs Makapaan and MapelaKruger; alone in the cave among the besieged KaffirsHe; recovers Potgieter's body-Expedition against; Montsioa-Kruger charges a band of Kaffirs singlehanded; 35; CHAPTER III; IN A POSITION OF COMMAND; The :first Basuto "Var-Kruger assists the Orange Free; State against the Basutos and negotiates the peace with; Moshesh-Kruger as general in the :field against the; Kaffir chief Gasibone 53; vii CHAPTER IV; THE
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