NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA

A New Edition.

356 pages, map of the ceded territory of the frontier with the District of Albany and part of Somerset as frontispiece, half black calf with cloth sides (with the binder’s ticket of Carter Bros, Binders, North Road, Brighton at the base of the front paste-down endpaper), spine decorated gilt in panels with a red leather title label. The frontispiece map is foxed with offsetting on the title page, otherwise the contents are clean and bright.

‘..and though he tells us that he weighed carefully the advantages of the several British Colonies before he fixed upon the Cape as the most suitable place to recoup the family fortunes, the introduction of and the publicity given in 1819 to the Government's scheme to establish settlers in the Eastern Districts of the Cape Colony must have considerably influenced him. That he did come to the Cape, albeit for only six years, we can be grateful, for though not perhaps a great man he was of more than ordinary ability and of the greatest integrity - no mean protagonist in the fight for truth and the relief of oppression. That he had his failings - principally a lack of tact and caution - will become apparent.' A.Lewin Robinson from his introduction to the facsimile reprint published by C. Struik & Co, Cape Town, 1966.