This volume deals specially with "the emigration of the Boers from the Cape Colony, and the establishment of the two Republics in the Interior of South Africa." The introductory chapters deal with the native races of the Cape and their rulers, and these are followed by an account of the Great Trek and of the settlements of the Boers, and their wars with the natives and the British, the scope of the work extending to the establishment of the republic of Natal and its super session, and the foundation of the Orange Free State and the South African Republic.