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A novel of the Zulu Wars in South Africa Limited edition signed and dated first printing of the first edition. Title-page also has a drawing by the author of a firearm, assegai, and shield.

A rare first edition beautifully rebound.An account of the 1820 Settlers in Albany South Africa by one of the emigrants and one of the few survivors in 1870. Mendelssohn I, 491."When the Jubilee of the British Settlers was celebrated in Grahamstown in 1870, the Rev Henry Hare Dugmore was chosen to tell the story of the Settlement, and the lecture he gave was later published . . . Dugmore had come as a child with the emigrants of 1820, and had shared fully in both the hardships and the achievement of the critical fifty years that followed . . . He was chosen to speak to them, because he had earned the right to speak for them" Henry Hare Dugmore (1810 1896) was an English missionary, writer and translator. He was born in England to Isaac and Maria Dugmore and baptised in Birmingham on 5 June 1810. The family emigrated when his father was financially ruined after being forced to pay the debts of a relative for whom he had stood surety. The Dugmore family sailed to South Africa on the vessel Sir George… Read More