The immortal history of South Africa

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IMMORTAL HISTORY

SOUTH AFRICA.

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THE ONLY

TRUTHFUL, POLITICAL, COLONIAL, LOCAL,
DOMESTIC, AGRICULTURAL, THEOLOGICAL, NATIONAL,
LEGAL, FINANCIAL AND INTELLIGENT HISTORY OF

MEN, WOMEN, MANNERS AND FACTS OF THE

CAPE COLONY, NATAL, THE ORANGE FREE
STATE, TRANSVAAL, AND SOUTH AFRICA.

By MARTIN JAMES BOON,
AUTHOR OF

How to Colonise South Africa, and by whom; Fottings by
the Way in South Africa; Home Colonisation; How to
Construct and Nationalise Railways; National Paper Money,
to enable all Nations to Construct Public Works without Bonds,
Mortgages, or Interest, &c., &c., &c.

LONDON:

WILLIAM REEVES, 185, FLEET STREET;

MARTIN JAMES BOON, 170, FARRINGDON ROAD.

SOUTH AFRICA:

HAY BROS., WHOLESALE AGENTS, KING WILLIAM'S TOWN.

1885.

CHAPTER I.-Boon Starts on his Travels from Bloem-

fontein-The Capital of the Orange Free State

Republic, South Africa-Describes the Town and
exposes its deplorable sanitary condition. 1-13

CHAPTER II.-Objections to youthful marriages

Definition of a "gentleman "-Health and hap-

piness synonymous The distinctions between

pleasure and happiness-Education of the feelings

as well as of the intellect erects a temple of

virtue in every heart Knowledge the ground-

work of virtue, and virtue the foundation of happi-

ness

14-25

CHAPTER III.-The climatic conditions of Bloem-

fontein misrepresented by doctors. to entice

visitors and secure patients-Cremation-The

Jews, the vilest race on earth: their money-

making dodges exposed-The Bible and the New

Testament Jesus Christ as God and Man

Christianity an instrument for degrading the

masses and for enriching the priests, pastors and

ministers of all sects-The pharmacopoeia of the

Church Rationalism -- Quackery: Medical and

Theological-Huxley's Lay Sermons-The Euca-

lypticus Luther and Shakespeare Human

Amelioration, Man's noblest work-Rainfall and

drought their effects on agriculture Water

Storage and Irrigation-Sheep Farming: defects

and remedies

26-58

CHAPTER IV.-Dutchmen's homes Dutch Farmers
and Jewish Traders-Anti-English feeling of the
old Boers-The English language prohibited by
the Boers in their Schoois-The fighting powers
of the Boers The Colonial Government an
organised conspiracy of cheats-Military bunglers
-An Officer burnt in effley-Dutch greed and
mendacity Sisters of rey The Diamond
Prey
Fields The Chiefs Sepinare and Samuel —
Dangers of the Road to travellers-Burning grass.

Forests and the drought-The Grahamstown

Scandal-Agricultural and industrial conditions-

The power of the pen-Boers and Basutos-The

Treaty of Aliwal North, verbatim et literatim 59-78

CHAPTER V.-Lord Derby and the Colonial Govern.
ment on the Basuto Question, official despatches,
&c., &c.

79-99

CHAPTER VI.-Trouble in store for the Colony-The

Basutos our auxiliaries and faithful allies-Cete-

wayo, John Dunn, and the Zulus-The Indenture

system pure and simple slavery-The British Lion

and the Transvaal- Execution of Mampoer:

shocking scene upon the scaffold-The G.O.M.

and President Kruger - The National Pitso-

Starving, shooting, and mutilating the Chief

Morosi horrible disclosures Basutoland, the

natural granary of South Africa

100-112

CHAPTER VII.-From Aliwal North to St. James Town

-A genuine woman and good mother-Govern

ment frauds-Districts and Reserves exclusively

for Natives-Missionaries the fomenters of rebel-

lion-Sprigg; a placeman in a stateman's posi-

tion; à land-hungerer, and selfish mercenary

failure Sprigg's brother-in-law a disgrace to

human mind-General Gordon in Basutoland: his

masterly plans, and sweeping abolition of sinecures

and reduction of salaries, including his own, re-

sulting in his dismissal from the post of Colonial

Commandant
113-127

CHAFTER VIII.-The Coal Fields of South Africa-
King Alcohol capsizes Cobb's Coach, with some
serious, and many ludicrous results-The late
Prince Imperial and the Zulu Campaign-Human
Man-Eaters-Hereditary transmission of disease
128-136