Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer

Foreword--My father's family--"Old Body"--Dualla--A cruel experiment--"Old Body"--and the goose--Cook and kitchen-maid--Scull and monkey--My mother's family--Abbey view--The Boc...

Arrival at Cape Town--Port Elizabeth--First encounter with big game Grahamstown--Severe thunderstorm--King William's Town Natives and their ponies--Social peculiarities--Farming...

Trip to the Transkei--Tiyo Soga and his family--Trip to the seaside--The Fynns--Wild dogs--Start as a sheep farmer--My camp burnt out--First commercial adventure--Chief Sandile-...

My claim a disappointment--Good results attained elsewhere--A surprised Boer--"Kopje wallopers"--Thunderstorms--A shocking spectacle--"Old Moore" and his love affair--The mornin...

Big gambling--Von Schlichmann--Norman Garstin--The painter of St. Michael's Mount--Start for the gold fields--"I am going to be hanged" Plentifulness of game--Snakes in an anthi...

Extended rambles--View from the mountain top--An unknown land--The deadly fever--Gray's fate--Lack of nursing--Temperature rises after death Pilgrim's Rest in early days--The pr...

Work on "the Reef"--Shaft-sinking in a swamp--Wolff and McGrath--A case of snake-bite--Tunneling--Humping green timber--John Mulcahy--His Gargantuan breakfast--His peculiar habi...

Expedition to Delagoa Bay--A rencontre at Constantinople--Morisot and the lion--Game in the Low Country--The Barber encampment--Lion's attack by daylight--Lions in the donga--Th...

Prospectors start for Swaziland--Rumors as to their fate--MacLean and I decide to follow them--Precautions against lions--The Crocodile River--The Boer and the pessimist--Game a...

Weakness after fever--I engage in commerce--Bats--The commandeered cat--My commercial ineptitude--Tom Simpson surprises--Wolff--Close of my commercial career--Saulez--His thrash...

On the road--Heavy rain--Mosquitoes--Natal--Thunderstorms--A terrible night Maritzburg--My cash runs out--A halcyon day--Hospitality--D'Urban--Failure to get work--The Fighting...

My health having improved in my eleventh year, I was able to extend the range of my walks abroad. The surrounding country was full of interest; the scenery was lovely. The regio...

Arrival at Cape Town--Port Elizabeth--First encounter with big game Grahamstown--Severe thunderstorm--King William's Town Natives and their ponies--Social peculiarities--Farming...

Trip to the Transkei--Tiyo Soga and his family--Trip to the seaside--The Fynns--Wild dogs--Start as a sheep farmer--My camp burnt out--First commercial adventure--Chief Sandile-...

My claim a disappointment--Good results attained elsewhere--A surprised Boer--"Kopje wallopers"--Thunderstorms--A shocking spectacle--"Old Moore" and his love affair--The mornin...

Big gambling--Von Schlichmann--Norman Garstin--The painter of St. Michael's Mount--Start for the gold fields--"I am going to be hanged" Plentifulness of game--Snakes in an anthi...

Extended rambles--View from the mountain top--An unknown land--The deadly fever--Gray's fate--Lack of nursing--Temperature rises after death Pilgrim's Rest in early days--The pr...

Work on "the Reef"--Shaft-sinking in a swamp--Wolff and McGrath--A case of snake-bite--Tunneling--Humping green timber--John Mulcahy--His Gargantuan breakfast--His peculiar habi...

Expedition to Delagoa Bay--A rencontre at Constantinople--Morisot and the lion--Game in the Low Country--The Barber encampment--Lion's attack by daylight--Lions in the donga--Th...

Prospectors start for Swaziland--Rumors as to their fate--MacLean and I decide to follow them--Precautions against lions--The Crocodile River--The Boer and the pessimist--Game a...

Weakness after fever--I engage in commerce--Bats--The commandeered cat--My commercial ineptitude--Tom Simpson surprises--Wolff--Close of my commercial career--Saulez--His thrash...

On the road--Heavy rain--Mosquitoes--Natal--Thunderstorms--A terrible night Maritzburg--My cash runs out--A halcyon day--Hospitality--D'Urban--Failure to get work--The Fighting...