Excerpt from Towards Pretoria: A Record of the War Between Briton and Boer, to the Relief of Kimberley

South africa, or Africa south of the Zambesi, may be described in a few sentences, so that its physical peculiarities are revealed, and it becomes Clear to the mind's eye that it is practically one country by nature, and must eventually be one by government.

A high plateau of rolling, grass-covered land falls away abruptly on each sea-shore, and at the Cape or southernmost end, leaving a more or less swampy, malarial, and generally narrow margin between the tableland and the water. On the Indian Ocean coast lie Natal, and Portuguese East Africa, and on the Atlantic German South-west Africa, and Portuguese West Africa.

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