net Johannes--Leader in Springhaansnek Attack on
Blockhouse Lines, 187

Heenop, David--Swimming the Orange River, 220

Heilbron--District to which Commander-in-Chief de Wet belonged, 4
Government of Orange Free State transferred to, 86
Mentz, Commandant F.E., Engagement with Colonel Byng's Column, 267

Heilbron Commando--Commandant Mr. L. Steenekamp, 4
Vice-Commandant, Election of Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 7
Visits to, by Commander-in-Chief de Wet, 230, 243

Heliographic Communication, Use by Boers, 286 _note_, 289

Hertzog, Judge--Continuance of the War, Arguments for and
against--Vereeniging Conference, 412
Despatch of, to the South-Western Districts, 225
Mission to bring back Commandos which had escaped from Prinsloo's
Surrender, 137
Peace Negotiations--Member of Commission of National Representatives
at the Pretoria Conference, 320, 365-396
Rejection of British Terms--Proposal, 425, 426
Report on Attitude of Burghers in North-Western Parts of Cape
Colony, 195
Vice-Commander-in-Chief, Appointment in Districts of Fauresmith,
etc., 158

Hides for Tanning--Destruction by the British, 233

Hijs, Commandant, P.L.--Impossibility of European Intervention, 401, 402

Holspruits--Boers breaking through British Lines, 293, 294

Honing Kopjes--Commander-in-Chief de Wet's first Engagement with Lord
Kitchener, 108-110

Honingspruit Station, Failure of Commandant Olivier's Attack, 115, 116

Horses--Bothaville, Capture of Horses by Boers, 299
Condition of Boer Horses, 338, 339, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 355
Dependence of the Boers on their Horses, 172
Fodder, Scarcity of, 341, 355
Skin Disease among, 271, 272
Wild Horses of the Veldt, Use of, by the Boers, 292, 293

Humiliation Days, Appointment of, 243

Independence of the Republics--
Afrikander Feeling as to, 58
British Government Attitude towards, 337
Correspondence between Presidents Kruger and Steyn and Lord
Salisbury, 330-332
De Wet's, Commander-in-Chief, Meetings to ascertain the feeling of the
Burghers as to Surrender of Independence, 313
"Irretrievably Lost," 419
Maintenance of--Burghers' Mandate to Vereeniging Delegates, 333, 337,
338, 347, 348, 362, 363, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 407, 411,
412, 417, 421, 422, 423, 424
Peace Negotiations--Conference at Pretoria between Commission of the
National Representatives and Lords Kitchener