Written by a lieutenant serving in the 74th Highlanders, this 1853 publication describes the individual experience of the 'Kaffir' war (now known as the eight Xhosa or frontier war) between the Xhosa people and the European settlers in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in the 1850s.
Published in 1853, this book recounts the personal experience of a lieutenant fighting in the Xhosa wars in South Africa.