Reminiscences Of A Frontier Armed Mounted Police Officer In South Africa PDF Download

Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Frontier Armed Mounted Police Officer in South Africa What a correct card is on the race-course, or a playbill at a theatre, in the same degree is a Preface to a book. The writer of the following pages thinks it incumbent upon him to furnish his Readers with a true and correct card of his race in Police Life. At the same time, he wishes to inform the cynic and the critic that he has put his jottings together, not for the purpose of being hauled over the coals for any little faults or discrepancies, but for the sole object of affording a pleasant hour or two to any unpretending "limb" of the General Public who may think fit to peruse this volume. It is true that this book may not savour of the highly sensational character now so much in vogue in works of this stamp; yet the Reader will find a sufficiency of Love, Murder, House-breaking, Highway Robbery, Theft, &c., &c., to gratify any ordinary taste. Due regard has been had, that nothing that would vitiate the most refined taste should make its way, unwittingly or otherwise, into the following pages. My Police Life in South Africa, extending over a period of five years, will, I trust, prove interesting. I spared no trouble in making and collecting my various notes. I have deemed it advisable, in some of the long and intricate police cases in which I have been engaged, to give extracts from the Colonial Press. 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.