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CHAPTER XIV

CRICKET IN SOUTH AFRICA

By P. F. Warner

On 3rd December 1898 I left England on my fifth tour abroad as a member of Lord Hawke's South African team. The side was a powerful one, including such men as F. Mitchell, C. E. M. Wilson, the late F. W. Milligan, Trott, Tyldesley, Cuttell, Haigh, and Board.

After a delightful voyage in the Scot, we arrived at Cape Town, and during the next four months played cricket from Table Mountain almost to the Zambesi and back again, visiting Johannesburg,

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