Author: Godfrey Callaway

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-16

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780332966106

Excerpt from Sketches of Kafir Life: With Illustrations A Book such as this surely needs no Preface; it speaks for itself. May one not say that it is like one of our up-country South-African houses, as we see them on so many of the farms in the Western Province of Cape Colony? You open the door, and you step straight in, with outstretched hand, sure of a hospitable welcome; it is no porch, or hall, or vestibule into which you have entered; but you are right in the house itself; and, as you look around, everything tells you that you are in the heart of South-African life. And yet, when a dear friend, whom fourteen years of common interests and hopes have bound very closely to one, asks for a Preface, how is it possible to refuse? It is true that the addition may mar the artistic symmetry of the building; but, after all, there is this consolation. Is it not the case that part of the charm and the interest of a house lies just in those very irregularities and additions, each of which has its own tale of character, and tastes, and age? At the very least, if this Preface serves no other purpose, it will show how complete is the sympathy between past and present workers at S. Cuthbert's; that in spite of the changes and developments that time must bring, there has been no breach of continuity, and no consciousness of differences. It has always seemed to me a matter of the greatest difficulty to convey to those who have never been in South Africa anything like an adequate picture of the life out there. 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.