M. T. Steijn, President of the Orange Free State

M. T. Steijn, President of the Orange Free State

Photograph

Source: Rompel’s Heroes of the Boer War, 115.

“President Steijn felt as much at home in the dwelling of the poorest Boer as in his own circle. When Steijn was still a judge and went on circuit, he loved to go and rest in the simple dwellings where the Boer complained to him of the drought and the locusts and the wife talked to him of the neighbours and the "folk [the Kaffirs]." To hold simple converse with these people was to him a relief from his official duties. He talked politics with them, learnt their ideas, their needs, and always showed himself the born Africander, free of all pride in his superior knowledge. ” [continued below]

[Click on image to enlarge it.]

You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the Internet Archive and the University of California Library and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.