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Illustrations.

[Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope], Frontispiece
[President Kruger], Facing page 48
[Lighthouse, Durban], 72
[President Steyn, Orange Free State], 88
[The Vaal River], 96
[Doctor Jameson], 112
[Majuba Hill], 120
[General Joubert], 136
[Pietermaritzburg], 152
[Cecil J. Rhodes], 168
[Government Building, Pretoria], 176
[Joseph Chamberlain], 192
[Bloemfontein], 208
[General Cronje], 224
[Pritchard Street, Johannesburg], 240
[Cattle on the Vaal River], 264

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FOREWORD.

This is the history, briefly told, of the great Dutch-English feud in South Africa, up to the beginning of the Africanders’ second war of independence with Great Britain, which opened on the 11th of October, 1899.

In writing these pages I have not felt conscious of being in controversy with any one. If I had been susceptible to influences that create prejudice, nearly three centuries of American descent from purely Anglo-Saxon progenitors with no admixture of any other blood would have predisposed me to magnify everything in this long feud that exemplified the prowess and the honor of that race, and to minify in the telling whatever faults it had committed. It will be for such readers of my work as are conversant with the ultimate authorities on the subject treated of to judge how far I have succeeded or failed in presenting a “plain, unvarnished” tale. [[10]]

I acknowledge, with much gratitude, indebtedness for data to the following distinguished writers: