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In the Shadow of Death (Hardcover)
P. H. Kritzinger, D. McDonald R. D. McDonald, P. H. Kritzinger and R. D. McDonald
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R621
Discovery Miles 6 210
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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.
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 f
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