Josiah Wright Matthews sailed to Natal in 1864 as surgeon on an emigrant ship and became a district surgeon at Verulam before following the diamond rush to Kimberley. His memoir covers Zulu customs, colonial politics, the gun trade, mining camps and a trip to India, with the confident colonial attitudes of the 1880s.
A detailed eyewitness account of South Africa in the diamond era for readers of colonial and African history. Download the free EPUB.