Impressions of South Africa

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Author

Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922

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Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

Free State (South Africa)

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eBook-No.

22323

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22323

Release Date

August 14, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.IMPRESSIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA — BY
2. 2.JAMES BRYCE — AUTHOR OF "THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE," "TRANSCAUCASIA AND ARARAT," "THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH," ETC. — With Three Maps. — THIRD EDITION, REVISED THROUGHOUT
3. 3.THE COMPANION OF MY JOURNEY
4. 4.PREFATORY CHAPTER
5. 5.NOTE
6. 6.MAPS AT END OF VOLUME
7. 7.CONTENTS
8. 8.AREA AND POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COLONIES, REPUBLICS AND TERRITORIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
9. 9.DATES OF SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA
10. 10.INTRODUCTION
11. 11.PART I — NATURE
12. 12.CHAPTER I — PHYSICAL FEATURES
13. 13.CHAPTER II — HEALTH
14. 14.CHAPTER III — WILD ANIMALS AND THEIR FATE
15. 15.CHAPTER IV — VEGETATION
16. 16.CHAPTER V — PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE VARIOUS POLITICAL DIVISIONS — CAPE COLONY — THE COLONY OF NATAL — GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA — PORTUGUESE SOUTH-EAST AFRICA — THE ORANGE FREE STATE — THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC — BRITISH TERRITORIES—BECHUANALAND — THE TERRITORIES OF THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY
17. 17.CHAPTER VI — NATURE AND HISTORY
18. 18.CHAPTER VII — ASPECTS OF SCENERY
19. 19.PART II — A SKETCH OF SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY
20. 20.CHAPTER VIII — THE NATIVES: HOTTENTOTS, BUSHMEN, AND KAFIRS
21. 21.CHAPTER IX — OUT OF THE DARKNESS—ZIMBABWYE
22. 22.CHAPTER X — THE KAFIRS: THEIR HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONS
23. 23.CHAPTER XI — THE EUROPEANS IN SOUTH AFRICA TILL 1854
24. 24.CHAPTER XII — THE EUROPEANS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1854-95
25. 25.PART III — A JOURNEY THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA
26. 26.CHAPTER XIII — TRAVELLING AND COMMUNICATIONS
27. 27.CHAPTER XIV — FROM CAPE TOWN TO BULAWAYO
28. 28.CHAPTER XV — FROM BULAWAYO TO FORT SALISBURY—MATABILILAND AND MASHONALAND
29. 29.CHAPTER XVI — FROM FORT SALISBURY TO THE SEA—MANICALAND AND THE PORTUGUESE TERRITORIES.
30. 30.CHAPTER XVII — OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESOURCES AND FUTURE OF MATABILILAND AND MASHONALAND
31. 31.CHAPTER XVIII — THROUGH NATAL TO THE TRANSVAAL
32. 32.CHAPTER XIX — THE ORANGE FREE STATE
33. 33.CHAPTER XX — BASUTOLAND
34. 34.PART IV — SOME SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTIONS
35. 35.CHAPTER XXI — BLACKS AND WHITES
36. 36.CHAPTER XXII — MISSIONS
37. 37.CHAPTER XXIII — SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TWO BRITISH COLONIES
38. 38.CHAPTER XXIV — POLITICS IN THE TWO BRITISH COLONIES
39. 39.CHAPTER XXV — THE SITUATION IN THE TRANSVAAL BEFORE THE RISING OF 1895
40. 40.CHAPTER XXVI — THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA
41. 41.CHAPTER XXVII — REFLECTIONS AND FORECASTS
42. 42.APPENDIX — CONVENTION OF 1881 — CONVENTION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE TRANSVAAL TERRITORY.
43. 43.CONVENTION OF 1884 — A CONVENTION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN REPUBLIC. — ARTICLES.
44. 44.INDEX — A — B — C — D — E — F — G — H — I — J — K — L — M — N — O — P — Q — R — S — T — U — V — W — Z — FOOTNOTES:

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