NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1902
Copyright, 1902, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
All rights reserved
Published, December, 1902
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
TO
MY FELLOW SUBJECTS
OF
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Preface
By way of introduction to my work I wish, dear reader, to say only this short word: "I am no book-writer."—But I felt that the story of this struggle, in which a small people fought for liberty and right, is rightly said, throughout the civilized world, to be unknown, and that it was my duty to record my personal experiences in this war, for the present and for the future generations, not only for the Afrikander people, but for the whole world.
Not only did I consider this my duty, but I was encouraged to write by the urgings of prominent men among my people, of men of various nationalities and even of several British officers.