The Great Boer Escape South African literature Trekking On and No Outspan

Trekking On and No Outspan

but ultimately rejoined her parents in yet another camp just before the end of the war

to General De Wet’s address – in a voice ‘shaken with emotion’ – to his men after the war was lost

Christian de Wet

The Great Boer Escape South African literature Trekking On and No OutspanAlso Available on Kindle This is Willie Steyns first hand account of what was undoubtedly the great escape of the Anglo Boer War. The author was one of six hundred Boer prisoners sent by ship to the island of Ceylon to be interned in the Diyatalawa prisoner of war camp. While their ship was anchored in Colombo harbour on a dark, moonless night, Steyn and four of his fellow prisoners lowered themselves into the sea, each waiting until his predecessor