x, [2], 329, [3] + 4 ad pp. Illustrated with five duotone lithographs and additional wood engravings in text. (8vo) 20.2x12.5 cm (8x5"), red cloth lettered on spine in gilt, gilt stamp to front cover, apparently re-cased in the original binding. First Edition.
A narrative of the author's involvement, with his 78th Highlanders Brigade, in the Cape Frontier Wars, or Kaffir Wars. Technically this would have been the eighth Kaffir (or Xhosa) War, within a larger conflict that spanned one hundred years of South African history (1779-1879). The Kaffir wars were one of the most prolonged struggles by indigenous peoples against European colonization.
