1 volume. First U.S. edition. Presentation copy by author to L. Herbert.
Publishers dark green decorative cloth.
Gilt title with gilt vignette on spine.
Gilt title + gilt vignette of Zulu chieftain on cover.
Pale-green floral decorative endpapers.
vii, 542 pages + frontispiece + 29 full-page plates.
In-text illustrations + chapter vignettes.
Matthews left Britain in 1864 as surgeon on the Tugela,
an emigrant ship. On arrival he managed to obtain the post
of District Surgeon of Victoria County, Natal. In 1871 he proceeded
to the diamond fields, having already sent up an advance party under
the geologist G. J. Lee, later Chairman of the Kimberley Mining Board,
to work the mines. "The author was for many years closely identified with
every social and political movement on the Fields, and his description of
the diamond fields, and his references to the 'Illicit Diamond Trade', are
particularly interesting. There are particulars of 'The Kimberley Company
and Share Mania of 1881','The Early History of the Diamond Fields',
'An Account of the Black Flag Riot', together with sketches of the author's
adventures in Basutoland, Swaziland, and the Transvaal, where he
eventually settled" (Mendelssohn, vol I, p.997).
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