Excerpt from Khama: The Great African ChiefTo-day the railway runs across the wastes, the motor-car bumps over the sandy drifts, and the Sluicing stamp-heads roar where the hyenas lurked. But History speaks in the half-told tales round the outspan fires at night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.