PBEFAGE. 
My reason for laying before the English public my 
‘Recollections’ of some of the events that have occurred 
to me during many years’ residence in South Africa 
is, that I believe the subjects treated of in this little 
book are such as have a permanent interest with many 
readers. 
Narratives of field sports, when accompanied by 
danger and privations, will always be interesting, and 
find a responsive echo in the breasts of Englishmen, 
who always show their love of true sport, in England, 
by their keenness in pursuit, if not in the magnitude 
and multitude of the game pursued. 
The records of wars carried on by Englishmen 
against so dangerous and formidable an enemy as the 
Kafirs have so often shown themselves to be, can never 
be 6 too late,’ or fail to command that interest insepa- 
