Napier (Lt.-Colonel E. Elers): EXCURSIONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, Including A History of the Cape Colony, An Account of the Native Tribes, Etc

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Napier (Lt.-Colonel E. Elers) : EXCURSIONS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, Including A History of the Cape Colony, An Account of the Native Tribes, Etc

2 volumes, 359 + 456 pages, 8vo (205 x 125 mm), engraved frontispieces in each volume - volume 1 a view of Table Bay engraved by John Bull, 3 engraved plates and three engraved illustrations in the text, contemporary quarter blue cloth with red leather title labels on the spine and marbled paper sides, a very good set

Mendelssohn 2:75, 'An account of the Cape Colony from the earliest period of settlement down to the Kaffir War of 1876-7. The second volume gives a record of the campaign - the War of the Axe - in which Lieut. Colonel Napier was engaged as supernumerary officer in charge of the irregular forces. The author states that he was impressed with the previous misgovernment of the colony, and with "numerous wrongs it had suffered - owing chiefly to shameful intrigues and gross misrepresentations," and the work, as originally written, appears to have been a very outspoken exposé of the shortcomings of the British Government at the Cape. The author states that no publisher would undertake to issue the work in its original state, but finally it was subjected to careful modification and published in its present form'.

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