Identifier: southeastafrica04lucauoft (find matches)
Title: South and East Africa
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir, 1853-1931
Subjects: South Africa -- History South Africa -- Description and travel
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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thods, agencies, and results, and of the variousprovinces of the British empire, recording facts and avoiding,as far as it is possible to do so, controversial topics. Thebook has been written and should be read from that point ofview. Where any views are expressed, they are my ownalone. C. P. LUCAS.Dec. I, 1896. CONTENTS OF PART I PAGE Chap. I. The Cape 1487-1652 i Chap II. The founding of the Dutch Settlement at the Cape 23 Chap. III. The Cape Colony in the Eighteenth Century . 65 Chap. IV. The Alissionary Movemejtt and British Immi-gration . . ...... 108 Chap. V. The Kaffir Wars 140 Chap. VI. The Beginnings of Natal and the Boer Republics 179 Chap. Vri. The growth of the Cape Colony a^id Natal . . 225 Chap. VIII. The last Twenty Years in South Africa . . 268 Chap. IX. General Suvimary ...... 326 Index 341 LIST OF MAPS. Map of Africa South of the Zambesi . . . To face page i „ „ the Cape Colony in 1806 .... ,, » 108„ to illustrate the Kaffir Wars \ „ Zulu and Boer Wars * ^49
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HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH COLONIES. VOL. IV. SOUTH AND EAST AFRICA, PART I. HISTORICAL. CHAPTER I. THE CAPE 1487-1652. The story of South Africa is unique in the chronicles of Cii. I.European colonisation. For a century and a half it is the —**—barren record of a landmark—the Cape. For another cen- ^^^^^^ Jlftury and a half it is little more than the story of a port q( the hisurycall, round which a small settlement gathered. It is now ^/-;./j-^ the unfinished tale of a wide dominion. In the days when the Portuguese were lords of the sea,the Cape was a point on the route to and from the East, tobe sighted and gladly passed by. Under the Dutch it wasa trading station, subsidiary to and maintained in the in-terests of the Netherlands Indies. In British keeping it hasbeen the nucleus of a great European colony, the home andabiding place of a large white population. The two main streams of European discovery and Euro-pean colonisation have flowed from West to East and fromsoutheastafrica04lucauoft

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