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A few preliminary pages of personal history I offer to those who followed me either in thought or deed during the Anglo-Boer War. My ancestors were Germans; my grandfather was born in the South. About the year 1820 he, along with two brothers, bade farewell to the land of his nativity and emigrated to South Africa. They found a home for themselves in the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth, and there they settled as farmers. Two of the brothers married women of Dutch extraction; one died a bachelor. A small village, Humansdorp, situated near to Port Elizabeth, was the birth-place of my father. There he spent the greater part of his life. He, too, married a Dutch lady; and we children adopted the language of our mother, and spoke Dutch rather than German.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: In the Shadow of Death
• Author: R D McDonald
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781421847597
• ISBN: 9781421847597
• ID: 08413556
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 422 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. June 2007

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