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Brighter South Africa; or, Life at the Cape and Natal ... With map

James Ewing Ritchie · 1892 · Scanned text

54,041 words · about 3 h 47 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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About this book

Author
James Ewing Ritchie
Language
English
Published
1892
Length
54,041 words · about 3 h 47 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Chapter I. Page under 1 min
  2. Chapter II under 1 min
  3. Chapter XIV about 3 h 47 min

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Chapter I. Page

Off to the Cape — Sir Donald Currie — Need of Information — The Cape as a Health Resort — The Union Company — The Great Scot ..... 1

Chapter II

The Thames in Winter — Dartmouth — Lisbon — Madeira— The Canary Islands — General Joubert — Swazieland — Mr. Webb — A Mother Carey Chicken — Incidents of the Voyage — Arrival at the Cape . . . .17

A South African Explorer ..... 206

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