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 .. . SCENE AT A RECRUITING STATION IN CAPE THE BOER OF THE TRANSVAAL. 63 Boers are the descendants of the original Dutch settlers. They arethe proprietors of the government, and guard their public officesvery jealously from the intrusion of foreigners. The Boers know toowell that foreigners would soon be in possession of all the availableoffices if they get a loophole. The Boers in fact are a degenerateclass
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 .. . SCENE AT A RECRUITING STATION IN CAPE THE BOER OF THE TRANSVAAL. 63 Boers are the descendants of the original Dutch settlers. They arethe proprietors of the government, and guard their public officesvery jealously from the intrusion of foreigners. The Boers know toowell that foreigners would soon be in possession of all the availableoffices if they get a loophole. The Boers in fact are a degenerateclass when compared with their ancestors, and the same degeneracywhich makes them inferior mentally makes them less able to carry outa war than their fathers were before them. It would take some timefor them to become as accurate marksmen or as reliable fathers lived in the open and made hunting and fighting theirdaily occupation, while to-day more fighting goes on in the streets oftheir cities than ever takes place in the open. The cause of a great deal of disturbance in the South African Re-public is the presence of the Kaffirs, who are maltreated and lookeddown upon by everybody, and used in a most ruffianly ma
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