With Sword and Statute

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Excerpt from With Sword and Statute: On the Cape of Good Hope FrontierWe have been favoured with a copy of a neatly-printed little volume bearing the above title. The author explains that it was hurriedly written for the perusal of his family and at the urgent request of his eldest son, Captain Godfrey Blair Hook, D5 0, Rand Mines, at whose hospitable residence he was then staying. Major Hook had no notes or memoranda at his disposal, and wrote entirely from the depths Of a retentive memory. The literary style is simple and natural, and a erusal of this little booklet leaves a feeling of regret that more 0 Major Hook's contemporaries have not set down on paper their Colonial experiences It is a record of a hard, strenuous life in ¿ood and field, and will not only prove of absorbing interest to the gallant Major's children and grand-children, but will be treasured by those who desire to know something of the Stirring times through which the Colony has passed since 1846.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.