Excerpt from History of the Emigrant Boers in South Africa: Or the Wanderings and Wars of the Emigrant Farmers From Their Leaving the Cape Colony to the Acknowledgment of Their Independence by Great Britain After a long residence on the Cape Frontier in a position which brought me into constant contact with the different races, on the outbreak of the Kafiir War towards the close of 1877, I was requested by the Government to undertake a diplomatic task requiring special knowledge of native character. Having suc ceeded in performing the duties entrusted to me, when the war was over I asked for and Obtained the charge of the Colonial Archives preserved in Cape Town. During the period from March 1879 to January 1881 I prepared a volume of Abstracts of Early Cape Records, which was published by the Government, and I collected a quantity of material for a History of the Foundation of the Cape Colony. Transferred again to the Native Department, I returned to the frontier and acted as magistrate of Tamacha until the close of the Basuto war, when I Obtained leave of absence for six months and proceeded to the Hague to complete by research in the Archives of the Netherlands the infor mation required for my early Cape History. That volume was published in Cape Town in 1882, under the title of Chrenicles Of Cape' Commanders a'n Abstract of Original Manuscripts in the Archives of the Cape Colony, dating from 1651 td 1691, compared with Printed Accounts Of the' Settlement by various Visitors during that time. 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.