Excerpt from South Africa, Past and Present: A Short History of the European Settlements at the Cape

The condition of the Cape Settlement in its early stage, when it was simply a Factory of the Dutch East India Company, has already been described with a masterly hand by the late Judge Watermeyer. I have contented myself with briefly sketching the main features of that period, and introducing some information respecting the Huguenot emigration, which I originally communicated to the Cape Monthly Magazine, in 1860.

My principal aim in this volume has been to give a continuous narrative of the progress of European colonization from the close of the past century down to the present time. In attempting to do so, I have endeavoured to avoid anything like a dry chronological detail of events, and have sought to present, in a connected view, all that is most noticeable in the Political History of the Colonies and States of South Africa.

These Colonies and States are now approaching a new and important epoch.

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