Excerpt from Dr. Jameson's Raid: Its Causes and Consequences The Transvaal, or South African Republic, its people and government, are at present occupying and perplexing the minds of all thoughtful Britons. The territory is about equal in size to the United Kingdom, and extends on the south from the River Vaal, which separates it from the Orange Free State, to the Limpopo or Crocodile River, which separates the Transvaal on the north from the Chartered territory of The British South Africa Company. On the west it is bounded by Bochu analand, and on the east by the Portuguese territory, which intervenes between the Transvaal and the coast of the Indian Ocean. The name Transvaal (literally, beyond the Vaal) was applied to this country by the Dutch Africanders, who. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.