Excerpt from A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland A little after this hour I return, and am shown into the great man's office. A lieutenant-colonel and several Majors, all humble practitioners in civil life, seem to have nothing to do or are leisurely driving a pen. The s.m.o. Himself is at the telephone. Some important business transacted, he turns to me. Yes, I think the d.m.s. Wrote to me about you and he looks through some papers. No, there is no men tion as to the disposal of an officer of your name; but I will send you over to the of the Northern Force, and if he has nothing for you to do, I will try to find you something at Wynberg. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.