Side lights on South Africa

Devereux Roy 1877-

Description

Oil^Lj ROY DEVEREUX THE LIBRARY OF THEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOSANGELES mi SIDE LIGHTS ON SOUTH AFEICA SIDE LIGHTS ON SOUTH AFRICA BY ROY DEVEREUX WITH A MAP OF SOUTH AFRICA SECOND EDITION LONDON SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY LIMITED St. JBunstan's H^ausc Fetteb Lane, Fleet Stkeet, E.O. 1900 : LONDON PniXTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREKT AND OHAKING CROSS. X^T >- A So'. SIDE LIGHTS ON AFRICASOUTH CHAPTER I. ON THE EDGE OF THE SOUTH. is curious how repugnant to the mind of theIt average womt^n is the mere suggestion of six miles of sea. Even if she has out-thousand idea that home necessarily meansgrown the a house, whose four walls enclose all the green years of her youth and the golden years of her maturity, the more popular corners of Europe usually afford her sufficient space in which to revive the atrophied tissues of her mind and her body. That spiritual phthisis, which only interminable journeying can cure, is fortu- nately neither a common nor a contagious complaint. Those women who do forsake the joys of the London season and the Rue de la Paix are, as a rule, dragged into the wilder- B 2 Side Lights on South Africa of man, wliomness in the company some towards few remainingwork or sport impels the waste places of the earth. They endure it, fortified by the reflection that there is only one bourne from which no traveller returns.

Sujets

• South Africa

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

Extrait

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ROY
DEVEREUXTHE LIBRARY
OF
THEUNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOSANGELESmiSIDE LIGHTS ON SOUTH AFEICASIDE LIGHTS
ON
SOUTH AFRICA
BY
ROY DEVEREUX
WITH A MAP OF SOUTH AFRICA
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY
LIMITED
St. JBunstan's H^ausc
Fetteb Lane, Fleet Stkeet, E.O.
1900:
LONDON
PniXTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREKT AND OHAKING CROSS.X^T
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