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you place the South African exploits
in their relation to the general
history could only have been written
by yourself, as also could the
brief and impressive sentences
in which you continue to give
a vital impression of the exploits
themselves. I have read it all
with intense interest, and I do
admire your mastery of the
vast accumulation of facts and
the skill with which you insist
upon creating in the mind
of your reader the imagination