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Title: War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Harding, William
Subjects: Boer War
Publisher: Chicago : Dominion Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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g to the Engineering and Mining Journalof September 2, 1899), the Transvaal mines produced gold to the valueof $78,070,761, against the entire output of the United States of$65,082,430. English people all the world over, and especially inAmerica, will be grateful to President McKinley and his advisers fortheir wise and dignified attitude during this crisis, and will rejoiceover the well-merited snubs administered to Bourke Cockran andGeneral OBeirne. Deeply as all right-thinking Englishmen appre-ciate the good will and esteem of the great American people, eventhese could have been too dearly purchased were the price nationalself-respect. Having pictured the Boer and Outlander from the British stand-point, it will be refreshing to see the Boer pictured by an American.Benjamin Davis, of New York City, September 12, 1899, gave thefollowing version of the Boer: The social status of the Transvaal may be summed up in a view ofeach of the three classes of people composing its population. The
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SCENE AT A RECRUITING STATION IN CAPE TOWN.

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