CONTENTS

[DEDICATION]

[PREFACE]

[LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]

[CHAPTER I]

FIRST VOYAGE TO SOUTH AFRICA—CAPE TOWN

[CHAPTER II]

KIMBERLEY AND THE JAMESON RAID

[CHAPTER III]

THE IMMEDIATE RESULTS OF THE RAID—THE RAIDERS THEMSELVES

[CHAPTER IV]

JOHANNESBURG AND PRETORIA IN 1896

[CHAPTER V]

THREE YEARS AFTER—LORD MILNER AT CAPE TOWN BEFORE THE WAR—MR.

CECIL RHODES AT GROOT SCHUURR—OTHER INTERESTING PERSONAGES

[CHAPTER VI]

PREPARATIONS FOR WAR—MAFEKING, AND DEPARTURE THEREFROM

[CHAPTER VII]

IN A REBELLIOUS COLONY—VISIT TO VRYBURG DURING THE

BOER OCCUPATION—I PASS OFF AS A DUTCHMAN'S SISTER

[CHAPTER VIII]

BETRAYED BY A PIGEON—THE BOERS COME AT LAST

[CHAPTER IX]

HOW I WAS MADE A PRISONER—IN A BOER LAAGER

[CHAPTER X]

EXCHANGED FOR A HORSE-THIEF—BACK TO MAFEKING

AFTER TWO MONTHS' WANDERINGS

[CHAPTER XI]

LIFE IN A BESIEGED TOWN

[CHAPTER XII]

LIFE IN A BESIEGED TOWN (continued)

[CHAPTER XIII]

ELOFF'S DETERMINED ATTACK ON

MAFEKING, AND THE RELIEF OF THE TOWN

[CHAPTER XIV]

ACROSS THE TRANSVAAL TO PRETORIA DURING THE WAR

[CHAPTER XV]

PRETORIA AND JOHANNESBURG UNDER LORD ROBERTS AND MILITARY LAW

[CHAPTER XVI]

MY RETURN TO CIVILIZATION ONCE MORE—THE

MAFEKING FUND—LETTERS FROM THE KING AND QUEEN

[CHAPTER XVII]

THE WORK OF LADY GEORGIANA CURZON, LADY CHESHAM, AND THE

YEOMANRY HOSPITAL, DURING THE WAR—THIRD VOYAGE TO THE CAPE, 1902

[CHAPTER XVIII]

FOURTH VOYAGE TO THE CAPE—THE VICTORIA

FALLS AND SIX WEEKS NORTH OF THE ZAMBESI

[APPENDIX I]

MAFEKING RELIEF FUND

[APPENDIX II]

IMPERIAL YEOMANRY HOSPITALS, 1900-1902