"CHEER, BOYS, CHEER ! " OR, BOUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA.

The following images are from the book "King's Empire" published in 2 volumes the early 1900s. The photographs were taken at the height of the British Empire. The books are available in higher resolution for download as PDF ebooks at www.ozebook.com

"CHEER, BOYS, CHEER ! " OR, BOUND FOR SOUTH AFRICA. This picture appeals to many thousands who have left the Old Country to seek their fortunes across the sea. The party gathered on the forward deck of the great Cape steamer is a varied one—old hands returning to the land they know, new hands going out to a land where all will be strange. Some will doubtless find the fortune they seek—wealth, happiness, and a new home ; others will fail in the struggle. But "Cheer, Boys, Cheer I" is a motto for one and all of those who are setting out across one of the great waterways of the Empire with all their future before them to make or mar. (Page 10.)