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Title: The Boer in Peace and War

Author: Arthur M. Mann

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THE BOER IN PEACE AND WAR

by

ARTHUR M. MANN

Author of _The Truth From Johannesburg_

With Sixteen Illustrations

London
John Long
6 Chandos Street, Strand

1900

[Illustration]

[Illustration: BOER MOUNTED POLICE]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BOER MOUNTED POLICE (Frontispiece)

WAGGONS BRINGING WOOL TO EARLY
MORNING MARKET (JOHANNESBURG)

A BOER HOMESTEAD

WAGGONS CROSSING RIVER

A BOER FAMILY

MAJUBA HILL

A BOER ENCAMPMENT

RAADZAAL, OR BOER PARLIAMENT HOUSE

PRESIDENT KRUGER'S HOUSE

PRESIDENT KRUGER

DUTCH CHURCH (PRETORIA)

BOER CATTLE FARM NEAR MAJUBA

SHOOTING RINDERPEST OXEN

WAGGON ON PONTOON OVER RIVER

BOERS OUTSPANNED FOR NACHTMAAL

BLOEMFONTEIN

THE BOER IN PEACE AND WAR

CHAPTER I

A Boer may know you, but it will take you some time to know him, and
when a certain stage in your acquaintance is reached, you may begin to
wonder whether his real nature is penetrable at all. His ways are not
the ways of other people: he is suspicious, distant, and he does not
care to show his hand--unless, of course, there is some pecuniary
advantage to be gained. He is invariably on the alert for advantages
of that description.

His suspicious nature has probably been handed down to him from
preceding generations. When he first set foot in South Africa he was
naturally chary concerning the na