With Botha's Army

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Excerpt from With Botha's Army: With Introductory Letter by General Botha The story of the campaign of German South-West Africa is written, plain for all time, across the sands of that amazing country, and an empty bully-beef tin, half-buried in the flank of a tawny sand-dune, is eloquent of most of its detail. But this, of course, we did not know when, on the 11th of September, 1914, we packed our horses on the s.s. Monarch, and ourselves aboard the Gaika to await the dicethrow of Chance. It is true that we were more or less certain as to our destination, but it is equally true that our knowledge on this point was strictly unofficial, and therefore sinful. Not that we greatly cared, however. Our optimism was a thing colossal. 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.