Description: History of the Colony Of Natal South Africaby The Reverend William C. HoldenHeylin, LONDON, 1855. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING Original cloth with some tears, wear, soiling. This copy is uncut, so it has not been read through. Small former owner ink stamp to ffep. See photos for best idea of condition. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 3 tinted lithograph plates, folding chart of Port Natal, 3 folding maps, 6 engraved plates, illustrations in the text. At the time this work was published the Colony had only been recognised as a British dependency for ten years, and its natural advantages, such as the harbour of D'Urban being safer than that of Table Bay, led the author to be optimistic about its future. The "early settlers came on the scene about three years after the total devastation of the country by the Zulu king, Chaka. The settlement of the Dutch in the colony, and the eventual occupation of it by the British are carefully gone into, A good description is given of the gradual establishment of civil government, and of the progress of the Colony, with notes on the towns, villages, and other settlements, and the Kaffir War,.".Mendelssohn. Mendelssohon, 1, pp.724-5. The photos are very helpful in depicting the exact book you are going to buy and I only use actual photos. I can send you more if need be, so please email me I took numerous photos of this book so you can see exactly what you are buying.boer, boers, adventure, novel, epic, romance, fiction, story, tale, tales, hunter, big game, action, exciting, excitement, fun, thriller, best-seller, best seller, zulu, sotho, swaziland, kimberley, johannesburg, pretoria, south africa, xhosa, matabele, tribe, warfare, fantasy, stories, novels, gold mining, diamond mining, Afrikaans, Afkrikaner, Afrikander, Dutch, elephant, antelope, buck, hunting, hunt, matabele, rhodesia, cecil rhodes, diamonds, gold, war, impi, shield, assegai, xhosa, lion, elephant, big game, buffalo, eland, koodoo, kudu, leopard, biltong, mealies, kraal, sotho, sesotho, twsana, setswana, inkosi, nkose, rider haggard, bertram mitford, wilbur smith, antiquarian,
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