The introductory chapters deal with the early history of the Cape, and the policy of the British Government in South Africa. Mr Nixon was in Pretoria during the siege (1880-1), and he gives a vivid account of the reception of the news of the British Government's decision to abandon the Transvaal.
He speaks indignantly and bitterly of the grief and distress of the British inhabitants and remarks," I saw men crying like children with shame and despair. Some went raving up and down that they were English-men no longer; others...declared against treachery which had misled them into a useless sacrifice...as I recall to mind the weeping men and women, the infuriated volunteers, and the despairing farmers and store-keepers, half crazy with the sense of wounded national honour, and the prospect of loss and ruin before them. my blood boils within me...."
SOURCE: Mendelssohn. Volume 2. Page 105.
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