Excerpt from Britain's Title in South Africa: Or the Story of Cape Colony to the Days of the Great Trek On the outbreak of the present war in South Africa, I was led, like many other Britons, no doubt, to inquire what the character of British rule in that region had been from the beginning. The right which Briton or Boer may claim to control the future of South Africa must certainly depend, in the conflicting circumstances of the case, on the work he has done in the past and the title it has earned for him to continue that work in the future. In the present contest no lesser issue than the destinies of all South Africa and the kind of civilisation under which its mixed population, Dutch, British, and coloured, are to live is involved. No superficial question of the rights of a suzerain or the name of a republic must be allowed to disguise the real nature of the struggle, or excuse any one from examining the record of both parties before deciding on what is only the latest phase of a conflict that is more than a hundred years old. 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.