Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South AfricaMatthews, J. W. (Josiah Wright)
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Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South Africa
Matthews, J. W. (Josiah Wright)
Diamond mines and mining -- South Africa; South Africa -- Description and travel
Description of the religious bodies on the Diamond
Fields—Educational efforts—The Church of England—Roman
Catholic Church—Dutch Reformed
Church—Doppers—Wesleyans—Presbyterians—German
Lutherans—Jews—Mahometans—Hindoos—“Bishop”
Mellet—Natives—Neglected Opportunities—Advent of Salvation
Army—Sundry Visitors—Birds of Passage. 393–413
CHAPTER XXVII.
Law and lawyers on the Fields—Law in the early days—Absence
of crime at that epoch—The Mutual Hall—Magisterial
jurisdiction—The Attorney-generalship—Attorneys and Law
Agents—A sudden death—Curious nomenclature of Kafirs—The
fate of “Brandy and Soda.” 414–423
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A serious accident—Felstead’s—Dr. L. S. Jameson—Trip to the
Transvaal—Mons. Grandier—Umbelini and
Cetywayo—Christiana—Potchefstroom—Pretoria—The Erste
Fabrieken—Burgers—Shepstone and Lanyon—Mapoch and
Mampoer—Battlefield of Bronkhorst Spruit—Start for Natal. 424–454
CHAPTER XXIX.
Leave Pretoria—A trying
situation—Heidelberg—Standerton—Michaelson’s—Boer Camp at
Laing’s Nek—Majuba once more—Newcastle—Maritzburg—Plough
Hotel—D’Urban—Voyage to the Cape—Curious mental
phenomenon—Return to Kimberley. 455–462
CHAPTER XXX.
Visit to the Kaap Gold Field—Caves at Wonderfontein—The
Duivel’s Kantoor—“The Valley of the Shadow of
Death”—Barberton and its development—Course of gold
discoveries. 463–481
CHAPTER XXXI.
Moodie’s syndicate—Their exorbitant demands and the
result—Barber Bros. and the Umvoti Reef—Mad
speculations—Future of the Gold Fields. 482–493
CHAPTER XXXII.
Leave Barberton—Steynsdorp—Komati River—King Umbandini’s
Kraal—Swazi Land—The drink curse and its result—Interview of
Dr. Clark, M. P. Transvaal Consul-General in England, with
Umbandini—National yearly dance of Swazis—The Tembi—Delagoa
Bay. 494–510
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Lourenço Marques—The changes it has
seen—Harbor—Climate—Railway plant imported by the late
President Burgers—Advantage of the Delagoa Bay route to the
Gold Fields. 511–514
CHAPTER XXXIV.
L’envoi. 515–518
APPENDIX.
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