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South African Boer soldier and author Deneys Reitz provided the reader with a vivid account of his service during the Boer War in his two previous volumes, Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War (1929) and Trekking On (1933).

Here he rounds off his further experiences in this book, first published in 1943, which describes the period in which he visited the Kalahari, Kaokoveld, Congo and Angola.

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