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Excerpt from A Lady Trader in the Transvaal ON a fine breezy morning, early in December, 1878, a number of passengers, and volunteers for the Zulu war, crowded the deck of one of the Union Company's steam ships, then lying off the Port of D' Urban, or Port Natal. She had been for some days unable to land her passengers owing to the roughness of the bar, that terrible difficulty presented by all south-east African seaports; but early on this particular morning the joyful intelligence that the tug was coming was made known, and the excitement was great in consequence. 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.