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CHAPTER VII!

APPILY the incidents connected with the late Boer War are receding and assuming a true perspective. The past ten years has witnessed many changes political and commercial. In the history of South Africa it is extremely gratifying to record that at the opening of a new decade not only is the commercial outlook full of promise but the political and human relations between Briton and Boer are, as they should be, cordial. It is not, there­fore, proposed in the following chapters to refer in detail to the incidents connected with the 1899-1902 war, but simply to indicate as historical landmarks the principal

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