Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
I.I Go on Commando as a Private Burgher[3]
II.Nicholson's Nek[13]
III.Ladysmith Besieged[19]
IV.I am Appointed Vechtgeneraal[22]
V.The Overwhelming Forces of Lord Roberts[26]
VI.Paardeberg[39]
VII.The Wild Flight from Poplar Grove[49]
VIII.The Burghers Receive Permission to Return to their Homes[56]
IX.Sanna's Post[61]
X.Four Hundred and Seventy English taken Prisoner at Reddersburg[71]
XI.An Unsuccessful Siege[77]
XII.The English Swarm over our Country[82]
XIII.Our Position at the End of May, 1900[92]
XIV.Roodewal[96]
XV.I Make Lord Kitchener's Acquaintance[108]
XVI.Bethlehem is Captured by the English[117]
XVII.The Surrender of Prinsloo[123]
XVIII.I am Driven into the Transvaal[129]
XIX.I Return to the Free State[144]
XX.The Oath of Neutrality[156]
XXI.Frederiksstad and Bothaville[161]
XXII.My March to the South[172]
XXIII.I Fail to Enter Cape Colony[180]
XXIV.Wherein Something is Found About War against Women[191]
XXV.I Again Attempt To Enter Cape Colony[197]
XXVI.Darkness Proves my Salvation[215]
XXVII.Was Ours a Guerilla War?[225]
XXVIII.Negotiations with the Enemy[230]
XXIX.President Steyn's Narrow Escape[242]
XXX.The Last Proclamation[246]
XXXI.Blockhouses and Night Attacks[260]
XXXII.My Commando of Seven Hundred Men[267]
XXXIII.A Success at Tweefontein[275]
XXXIV.I Cut my Way Through Sixty Thousand Troops[284]
XXXV.I go to the Transvaal with President Steyn[298]
XXXVI.Peace Negotiations[305]
XXXVII.The End of the War[319]
Correspondence[325]
APPENDICES

A.—Report of the Meeting of the General Representatives held at Vereeniging in the South African Republic on the 15th of May, 1902, and the Following Days

[333]

B.—The Conference at Pretoria between the Commission of the National Representatives and Lords Kitchener and Milner (May 19th-May 28th, 1902)

[365]

C.—Minutes of the Meeting of the Special National Representatives at Vereeniging, South African Republic, Thursday, the 29th of May, 1902, And the Following Days

[397]
INDEX[429]
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