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WHAT I SAW IN KAFFIR-LAND




  WHAT I SAW IN KAFFIR-LAND


  BY
  SIR STEPHEN LAKEMAN
  MAZHAR PACHA


  “MILITIA EST POTIOR. QUID ENIM?”


  WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
  EDINBURGH AND LONDON
  MDCCCLXXX


  _All Rights reserved_




PREFACE.


This book contains extracts from the daily record of impressions made
on my mind, by men and events, as we performed together our allotted
parts, in one short tragical episode at the Cape. Very little has been
omitted; nothing has been added. It is a simple narrative, taken from
the Book of my Life, of which, if it is not the opening chapter, it is
at least one of the first.

If by my observations I have hurt any one’s feelings, this