The third phase was marked at first by many exciting incidents, but by no great battle. The Boers defended some of the positions taken up by them with bravery and determination, but when once the railway to Komati Poort had fallen into our hands the war degenerated into a guerilla struggle. It was a war of raids, sometimes by a comparatively strong force and at others by handfuls of plunderers; a war trying and fatiguing in the extreme, and demanding extraordinary endurance on the part of our troops, but of which the end was always in sight. The obstinacy of the Boers had only the effect of bringing ruin upon their own countrymen and women; it could by no possibility alter the final result.

I have now endeavoured to recount the leading incidents in the second phase of the war, and although events have moved so rapidly that the capture of Pretoria is already an old story, I may hope that it has not yet lost its interest with British boys, and that With Roberts to Pretoria will meet with as favourable a reception as that given last year to its companion volume.

G.A. HENTY.

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I.[A Change of Fortune][1]
II. [On a Dutch Farm][19]
III. [A Quarrel][36]
IV.[The Ultimatum][58]
V.[Scouting][77]
VI.[The Advance][95]
VII.[Belmont, Graspan, and the Modder][111]
VIII.[A Dangerous Mission][132]
IX.[Kimberley][151]
X.[An Escape][170]
XI.[Magersfontein][190]
XII.[A Prisoner][211]
XIII.[Friends][227]
XIV.[A Band of Scoundrels][244]
XV.[Down Country][263]
XVI.[An Old Enemy][281]
XVII.[The Relief of Kimberley][300]
XVIII.[Paardeberg][318]
XIX.[Mafeking][337]
XX.[Johannesburg][354]
XXI.[Settled][371]

WITH ROBERTS TO PRETORIA

[CHAPTER I]

A CHANGE OF FORTUNE