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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: homely features betokened earnestness and force of character. Those people are variously named Boers, Trekkers, Voortrekkers, and Dutch Africanders. Boer, pronounced Boor, is a Dutch word, meaning, like the Latin, agricola, a farmer. TreUkcr is a person, like a nomad shepherd, who migrates or leaves his abode in search of a new home. These Boers are of Dutch extraction, and are named Africanders because they have settled in Africa. The Boers at present have many detractors, but few admirers; but it appears, from the testimony of the few men of British blood who in modern times have learned their language and consorted with them, hunting with them in the wilderness, and entering freely into their homes, that these rude farmers possess kindly hearts, and are a compound of many sterling virtues. One patriotic Englishman who has gained their hearts says: ?Among all the vhite men now thronging Johannesburg, and other parts of the Transvaal in search of gold, how many can say with truth that they know anything of the Dutch farmer ? Not one man in a hundred. They sneer at him, laugh at his guttural tongue, and heavy uncouth ways, and rail at his government; but as for taking the trouble to acquire his language, and find out something of the inner heart of the man, they willnot do it, and in their feverish search for a fortune they have not the time. And yet this farmer of the wilderness, rough and uncouth, and often surly and suspicious as he is, has a great and stirring history behind him in South Africa, and of which he is, and has a right to be, proud. He and his fathers have struggled, and trekked and warred, and been massacred, and have suffered in blood and purse and pastoral wealth for 250 years. Their struggles and strange vicissitudes are little known, while their dogged, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217203890 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217203892 |
| Weight | 0.38 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.26 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 110 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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