NOTES ON SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS from 1834 - 1938 (Early Grahamstown Print)

1838 first edition in half leather and marbled boards. Five raised bands and title to the spine. 215 pages + appendix of xxxvi pages. Previous ownership in ink on title page. Bookplate of James Jamieson on fep. (See notes at en of description)

A copy in good condition.

With Reference to The Civil, Political, and Religious Condition of the Colonists and Aborigines

William Boyce was a Wesleyan Missionary.

Introduction: Kaffer Irruption into the Colony, December 1834.

Chapter / Note 1: Causes of the Kaffer War

Note 2: Sir Benjamin D'Urban's extension of British jurisdiction over the Border Kaffers.

Note 3: Captain Stockenstrom's Border Policy.

Note 4: Hints for the improvement of the present system Border Policy.

Note 5: Vagrancy and its remedies

Note 6: Emigration of large parties of Coloniosts geyond the Colonial boundary.

Note 7: British control over emigration beyond the colonial boundary for the security of the Aborigines.

Note 8: Principles of colonization alike beneficial to the mother country, the colonists and the aborigines.

Note 9: Case and claims of the British colonists of Albany.

The outbreak of the Kaffir War of 1834- 35 and the utter ruin of 7000 people and the loss to them of over a quarter of a million of money, not including the losses of tradesmen and missionaries in Kaffraria. Causes of the Kaffir War, British jurisdiction, Stockenstrom’s border policy, emigration of large parties of colonists, claims of the colony at Albany, etc. (Mendelssohn, Notes on London edition, 178)

Jamie Jameson: James joined the British Armed Forces as a young man. Being a professional soldier meant that James was posted around the globe as higher command dictated. During his military career, James was stationed in places such as England, India, Ireland, Jersey, Northern Ireland and South Africa. 

The regiment was stationed on the Eastern Frontier of the British Cape Colony from March 1863 to November 1865, near Keiskammahoek where James worked as quartermaster.^20-22 This time his wife, Ann and their minor children accompanied him. It was here where their 15-month old son, Edmund Walter was christened on 14 June 1863 in the Military Chapel (Anglican Church) at Keiskammahoek.²⁴

Keiskammahoek was founded in 1851 as a military tented camp for British Armed Forcesunder the command of Colonel Henry Somerset of the 96^th Regiment of Foot, who were dispatched to stabilise the Frontier. The first white settlers started building houses in 1853 after the 8^th Xhosa War ended in 1851, and the village grew rapidly in the next decade. Keiskammahoek lies in a fertile valley at the foothills of the Amatola Mountains in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, at the confluence of the Keiskamma and Gxulu Rivers. 

After three years in the Cape at Keiskamahoek, the regiment relocated to Jersey, a British Channel Island. https://altathegenealogist.org.za/individual-surnames-family-lines/jamison/james-jamieson-1821-1888/