Published by Sampson Low, Marston and Company, London, 1898. 1st Edition. Octavo, lightly soiled yellow buckram boards with black lettering to spine & front board, illus pastedowns, adverts to prelims & terminals, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxii + 140pp. Some scattered foxing.
Very interesting account, includes the Opening of the Bulawayo Railroad; Teak Forests; Gold Mines; Johannesburg; Interview with President Kruger; A Boer Machiavelli; The Labour Question in Natal; Immigration wanted to Counterbalance Boer Influence; Rhodesia in the Hands of Land Grabbers.
Stanley was invited to Bulawayo upon the opening of the railway. His account was written as a series of letters for the journal South Africa whilst he travelled from Bulawayo to Johannesburg and Pretoria. Stanley was granted an interview with President Kruger, his opinions of whom are particularly unfavorable.
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