Excerpt from With a Show Through Southern Africa, Vol. 1 of 2: And Personal Reminiscences of the Transvaal War
'Africa semper aliquid novi offert' was written as long ago as the days of ancient Rome; and that 'Africa always offers to our notice something new' may fairly be echoed by the European of to-day. It is seldom that the pursuit of amusing the public brings its exponents into intimate relations with strife and warfare, nor is it usually attended by experiences of eccentric travel and singular incident; and these facts have alone induced me to place the following pages before the public. I may add that, certainly amongst some circles of society in Great Britain, the most impenetrable haziness appears to exist respecting South Africa - geographically, historically, and socially; another inducement to me to add the very mild rays of light these pages are capable of shedding upon the local atmosphere of fog with which many stay-at-home people seem to be occasionally surrounded.
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