Excerpt from Diary of a Trip to South Africa on R. M.S. Tantallon Castle The following pages appeared first in the columns of the "Arbroath Herald." This explains their many local allusions. They were written during the fatigue and excitement of travel. This fact may bespeak leniency with reference to literary and other blemishes. However, the vividness of first impressions noted on the spot may afford some compensation. Beyond the addition of a few notes, the pages appear almost unaltered in this second edition. Mr Gladstone, on perusal of pages 109 to 111, a few months before his death, wrote as follows to the author: - "I am glad to see you approved of a policy which I pursued amidst much obloquy, but have never repented of." Current events add pathetic interest to recollections of a trip to the Transvaal, made shortly before the unfortunate events of the last days of 1895 and the first of 1896. 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.