American Sympathy in the Boer War

Green wrappers with name in ink on front as well as tape to spine. Stapled book with 257 pages. The content in very good condition.

The author's rank as "Commandant Veld Police, Eastern Transvaal" was certified on p 2 of Krige's book by H C Bredell - from the "President's House, S'Gravenhage", in 1900. Writing in 1933, when Krige's memoirs were eventually published, General Enslin prefers to describe Krige as "Acting Commandant of Theron's Scouts".

The book recounts Krige's 17 months of touring the United States using public platforms and newspapers to work up "a considerable amount of active and tangible sympathy for the Boer cause". Krige recounts how Commandant-General Botha had instructed him to seek safety across the Portuguese border to escape being (wrongly) charged with shooting two British officers emerging from "a house with a white flag". The first 46 of 258 pp of Krige's illustrated  text cover events of the war itself, while the balance details the author's extensive tour as a representative of the Boers in the United States.