cts and
figures, given later on, I have consulted Conan Doyle's "The Great
Boer War," Stott's "The Invasion of Natal," and almost all other
available literature relating to the subject.

EDWARD P. LOWRY.

PRETORIA, _March 1902_.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

Page

THE ULTIMATUM AND WHAT LED TO IT 1

Two Notable Dreamers--A Bankrupt Republic--The Man who
Schemed as well as Dreamed--The Gold Plague--Hated Johannesburg
--Boer preparations for War--Coming events cast their shadows
before--The Ultimatum--The Rallying of the Clans--The
Rousing of the Colonies.

CHAPTER I

ON THE WAY TO BLOEMFONTEIN, AND IN IT! 14

A capital little Capital--Famished Men and Famine Prices--
Republican Commandeering--A Touching Story--The Price of
Milk.

CHAPTER II

A LONG HALT 24

Refits--Remounts--Regimental Pets--Civilian Hospitality and
Soldiers' Homes--Soldiers' Christian Association Work--
Rudyard Kipling's Mistake--All Fools' Day--Eastertide in
Bloemfontein--The Epidemic and the Hospitals--All hands and
houses to the rescue--A sad sample of Enteric--Church of
England Chaplains at work.

CHAPTER III

THROUGH WORLDS UNKNOWN AND FROM WORLDS UNKNOWN 45

A Pleasure Jaunt--Onwards, but Whither!--That Pom-Pom again
--A Problem not quite solved--A Touching Sight--Rifle Firing
and Firing Farms--Boer Treachery and the White Flag--The Pet
Lamb still lives and learns--Right about face--From Worlds
Unknown--The Bushmen and their Australian Chaplains.

CHAPTER IV

QUICK MARCH TO THE TRANSVAAL 57

A Comedy--A Tragedy--A Wide Front and a Resistless Force--
Brandfort--"Stop the War" Slanders--A Prisoner who tried to
be a Poet--Militant Dutch Reformed Predikants--Our Australian
Chaplain's pastoral experiences--The Welsh Chaplain.

CHAPTER V

TO THE VALSCH RIVER AND THE VAAL 70

The Sand River Convention--Railway Wrecking and Repairing--
The Tale, and Tails, of a Singed Overcoat--Lord Roberts as
Hospital Visitor--President Steyn's Sjambok--A Sunday at last
that was also a Sabbath--Military Police on the March--A
General's glowing eulogy of the Guards--Good News by the way--
Over the Vaal