Category: Travel Writing
It was in April of last year, 1877, that I first formed a plan of paying an immediate visit to South Africa. The idea that I would one day do so had long loomed in the distance before me. Except the South African group I had seen all our great groups of Colonies,--among which...
It is not improbable that many Englishmen who have not been altogether inattentive to the course of public affairs as affecting Great Britain may be unaware that we once possess...
8. CHAPTER VII.When I had spent a few weeks in Capetown and the immediate neighbourhood I went into the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony, and thence on to Natal, the Transvaal, the Diamond...
17. CHAPTER XVI.On arriving at Pieter Maritzburg I put up for a day or two at the Royal Hotel which I found to be comfortable enough. I had been told that the Club was a good club but that it h...
11. CHAPTER X.From Capetown I went on by sea to Port Elizabeth or Algoa Bay, thus travelling from the Western to the Eastern Province,--leaving the former when I had as yet seen but little of...
16. CHAPTER XV.I reached Durban, the only seaport in the Colony of Natal, about the end of August,--that is, at the beginning of spring in that part of the world. It was just too warm to walk...
15. CHAPTER XIV.The little Colony of Natal has a special history of its own quite distinct from that of the Cape Colony which cannot be said to be its parent. In Australia, Queensland and Victo...
18. CHAPTER XVII.Upon entering Natal we exchange the Kafir for the Zulu,--who conceives himself to be a very superior sort of man--not as being equal to the white man whom he reverences, but as...
9. CHAPTER VIII.My last little subsidiary tours in South Africa were made from Capetown to the country immediately across the Hottentot mountains after my return from Oudtshoorn and the Cango C...
4. CHAPTER III.I have to say that I feel almost ashamed of the headings given to these initiatory chapters of my book as I certainly am not qualified to write a history of South Africa. Nor, w...
5. CHAPTER IV.In a former chapter I endeavoured to give a rough idea of the geographical districts into which has been divided that portion of South Africa which Europeans have as yet made th...
10. CHAPTER IX.From Worcester we went on to a little town called Robertson, which is also the capital of an electoral division. The country here is altogether a country of mountains, varying f...
6. CHAPTER V.I had always heard that the entrance into Capetown, which is the capital of the Cape Colony, was one of the most picturesque things to be seen on the face of the earth. It is a...
20. CHAPTER XIX.When starting from Pieter Maritzburg to Pretoria I have to own that I was not quite at ease as to the work before me. From the moment in which I had first determined to visit th...
13. CHAPTER XII.The question of Kafir education is perhaps the most important that has to be solved in South Africa,--and certainly it is the one as to which there exists the most violent diffe...
3. CHAPTER II.Our possessions in South Africa, like many of our other Colonial territories, were taken by us from others who did the first rough work of discovering and occupying the land. As...
14. CHAPTER III.Later on in my journey, when I was returning to Capetown, I came back through some of the towns I have mentioned in the last chapter or two, and also through other places belong...
7. CHAPTER VI.It has come to be understood that the appropriate mode of governing a Colony is to have a King, Lords and Commons as we do at home. And if a Colony be a Colony in the fashion de...
19. CHAPTER XVIII.The story of Langalibalele is one which I must decline to tell with any pretence of accuracy, and as to the fate of the old Zulu,--whether he has been treated wrongly or rightly...
2. CHAPTER I.It was in April of last year, 1877, that I first formed a plan of paying an immediate visit to South Africa. The idea that I would one day do so had long loomed in the distance...
1. CHAPTER XIX.