... while his third book is, in fact, the story of his Six Months at the Cape (1879), a light-hearted reminiscence of an extended bvacation/b in the Eastern Cape and Karoo; an interesting and entertaining read for readers of all ages. ... Haggard spent a while in the Transvaal, where he had a position under Sir Theophilus Shepstone in the years leading up to the First Anglo-bBoer/b War. During this period he met a number of the hunter-adventurers, like Selous and Burnham, ...
The military have been somewhat better-equipped police personnel since at least the bBoer/b War. The NEET's rarely live beyond 40 to 45, so if you want a war of attrition, I daresay it's been on since the introduction of US and UK social ...
As the train steamed close to the shore, passing the oyster beds along the bten/b-mile fjord that cut deep into the coast and divided County Down from Louth, and the sun caught the wooded slopes of the Mourne Mountains on the other side of the water, b.../b Only four years before, his father had been given a similar hero's return when he came back to Ballymoyer from the bBoer/b War. Since then he had retired from the army and devoted his energies to the bestate/b that his wife, Mary, b.../b