Or A Year’s Travel, Sport, and Gold-Digging in the Transvaal and Colony of Natal.
First edition: 267 pages, embossed ownership mark on the front free end paper, original red cloth with pictorial gilt on the upper cover and spine, blind tooling on the back cover, all edges gilt, a very good copy.
Prize inscription on the front free end paper signed by the headmaster.
Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 1 page 55:This work describes a visit to the Transvaal, &c, in 1877-8. The author does not appear to have been successful as a digger or a speculator, but his experiences at Spitz Kop and Pilgrim's Rest fairly describe the life of the alluvial diggers at that period. Mr. Atcherley evidently believed the Boers were unjustly treated, and his non-success in negotiating with the British authorities in the Transvaal seems to have embittered his views.
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