The diary of Iris Vaughn.( Eastern Cape Africana)

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62 PAGES, THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL GROWING UP IN THE EASTERN CAPE AROUND THE TIME OF THE BOER WAR. LOVELY ANECDOTAL INFORMATION ABOUT , PEARSTON, GRAHAMSTOWN, THE BOER WAR, SCHOOLS OF THE AGE, COUNTRY LIFE, FORT BEAUFORT AND MORE.

"Yesterday the first Boers came. We looked at the milk bushes near the brick fields and saw the men on horses bobing and riding from one side to the great sloot on the other. Charles said, pop lots of farmers are riding near the bricks. Pop was reading his new book about Minie haha Hiawatha laughing water and would not listen. Then the next thing lots of men were riding in the street and Willem ran and said "Seer dit is de Boers" and Pop said My God so they are and then the Boers were opening the gate. They nearly all had beards like men in the Bible............"