SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

BY

WILLIAM EVELEIGH

AUTHOR OF
“A SHORT HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN METHODISM”

T. FISHER UNWIN, Ltd.

ADELPHI TERRACE, LONDON

“Of making many books there is no end,” said the Preacher, but strangeto say, there is not a single book in the English language that dealswith South-West Africa of modern days. Many references to the countryare found in the older books of South African travel and exploration,and some good works have been written in later times by German authors;but, unfortunately, the German publications are not available for theaverage reader. In the present volume an attempt has been made to setbefore the reader a brief but comprehensive account of the country,its history, its people, its resources, and its[Pg vi] possibilities. It isimpossible in a small book to deal more than briefly with the subject,and very slight treatment has had to suffice for many matters ofinterest. I hope, however, that I have succeeded in conveying a clearimpression of what South-West Africa is, and what it may become. Briefand unpretentious though the book is, it may serve to dispel the notionthat the country is nothing more than a desert and of very little valueto the Empire.

My thanks are due to Dr. Rudolf Marloth, of Cape Town; Prof. E. H.Schwatz, of the Rhodes University College, Grahamstown; Dr. Wm. Flint,Librarian of the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town; Mr. F. W. Fitzsimons,Director of the Museum, Port Elizabeth; and Mr. John Ross, of the[Pg vii]Kimberley Public Library, for valuable suggestions. My debt to variouswriters I have endeavoured to acknowledge elsewhere.

W. E.

Kimberley, South Africa.
1915.