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The Aftermath of War; An Account of the Repatriation of Boers and Natives in the Orange River Colony, 1902-1904

The Aftermath of War; An Account of the Repatriation of Boers and Natives in the Orange River Colony, 1902-1904

Beak, George B.

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ISBN10: 1151248770
ISBN13: 9781151248770
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...had accompanied his family ' (extract from Bloemfontein District Report). For the actual transport of the people to their homes, the burgher camps formed the base of operations. In June, 1902, there were, in addition to the largest at Bloemfontein, nine of these camps in the Orange River Colony, in the neighbourhood of the following places: Bethulie, Norval's Pont, Springfontein, Brandfort, Winburg, Kroonstad, Vredefort Road, Heilbron, Harrismith. The six camps in Cape Colony were Kimberley, Orange River, Aliwal North, Uitenhage, East London, Kabusie. The inmates of any one camp did not necessarily belong to the vicinity in which it was situated. In the Orange River Colony itself transfers from one camp to another had been going on for some months, in order that, at the cessation of hostilities, all the people might be collected in the camps nearest to their homes; but those in camp in the Cape Colony could not be allowed to return at once, owing to lack of accommodation. During hostilities these camps had provided a home for those who, through the exigencies of war, had been rendered homeless. On the conclusion of peace they became a temporary resting-place for the last to surrender and the returning prisoners of war. But these tranquil backwaters to the surging torrent of war, these harbours of refuge and havens of peace from all the horrors and sorrows of conflict, now suddenly became hives of activity.1 Day by day, and all day long, for many weeks clouds of dust were seen to rise as the long spans of oxen and mules, dragging waggon after waggon, laden with food, tents, and a strange assortment of domestic articles, crawled snakelike out of the canvas town on to the illimitable veldt, wending their way to some distant farmstead. The loading...

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