1972 reprint edition with 500 pages in very good condition.

'It is admitted that the accounts given, as well as "the opinions expressed, are mainly based upon official documents." The authoress describes the contest as "a most unnecessary war," and states that "too great eagerness to carry out a federation scheme defeated its own object, leading as it did to a too hasty annexation of the Transvaal - the primary cause of the Zulu War, and bringing in its train the Boer Rebellion." ' (from the preface)