A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, volume 4
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, volume 4
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, Sir Reginald Laurence Antrobus, Sir Charles Alexander Harris, Henry Charles Miller Lambert, John Davenport Rogers, Hugh Edward Egerton
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There were soldiers to be fed. There was expenditure on the spot of Imperial funds. There was traffic for the South African merchants and contractors, legitimate traffic and possibly illicit also. The British tax payer and the frontier settler felt the strain of war, but the resident at Capetown or Port Elizabeth, and the farmer whose home was at a secure distance from unruly Kaffirs, bore little of the burden and shared in the profit. The twenty years from 1834 to 1854 were years of con- stant... fighting. Then came a lull, and for more than twenty years there was an interval of comparative peace, preluding a new upheaval, new conflicts and conventions with black VOL. IV. Q Digitized by Google 226 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY Of THE COLONIES. Part I. and white men, more confusion, more reversal, and in the ""♦*^ end a great extension of colonisation and empire. This intermediate time, less eventful than the years which had gone before or which followed, contained the fruits of what had passed and the seeds of what was to come.
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