CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 



I. The Advance of the Desert 

 II. To the Islands of the Orange 



III. The Sand-Dunes of the Desert 



IV. The Melon and the Mail 

 V. Where Two Empires meet 



VI. The Shadow of the Great Thirst 



VII. The Vision of the Prophet 



VIII. What the Brown Earth gave to the 

 Blue .... 



IX. The Poor and the Land . 



X. A Rainless Wheat . 



XI. What the Dip means to the Desert 



XII. The Eye of Kuruman 



XIII. The Cataracts of King George . 



XIV. The Life Dream of Livingstone . 

 XV. The Empty Land 



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