Lanterna Rally

Author: W. Basil Worsfold

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 9781330395721

Excerpt from The Union of South Africa: With Chapters on Rhodesia and the Native Territories of the High Commission The late war and its beneficent sequel, the regaining of the lost solidarity of the European communities, have made the words "South Africa" familiar to the English-speaking world, but it is none the less necessary to distinguish between the two obvious meanings of the name. As a geographical term, then. South Africa is generally understood to cover that part of the continent of Africa which lies southward of the line formed by the river Zambezi and the northern boundary of German South-West Africa. Politically, the term is usually identified with British South Africa; that is to say, with Africa south of the Zambezi, excluding the German and Portugese territories lying respectively on the west and east coasts. South Africa in this sense - the sense in which it will be used in this book - has an area of rather less than a million square miles, and a mixed European and coloured population of 7,500,000; and it to-day comprises (1) The Union of South Africa, (2) the Native Protectorates or Territories not yet placed under the Union Government, and (3) Southern Rhodesia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.