War in South Africa and the dark continent : from savagery to civilization : the strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers, embracing the explorations and settlements, wars and conquests, peoples and governments, resources and products of this the least known, yet by nature endowed as the richest and most wonderful of continents : and a detailed history of the causes and events of the British-Boer war / by William Harding. With a history of the Australian contingents in the South African war, their work for Queen and Empire by Donald Macdonald ; assisted by John Sandes.