rs are not willing to do. They want everything for
nothing.

Does not their request seem outrageous?

The Uitlanders kept up their demands for a share in the government, and
the Boers steadily refused them.

Then the population of Johannesburg began to arm itself, and the Boers
quietly watched them.

At last, word was sent to Dr. Jameson from the leading Uitlanders in
Johannesburg that the Boers were up in arms, and that the people of
Johannesburg were in danger of their lives.

They begged Dr. Jameson to come to their aid, in the name of humanity.

Dr. Jameson did not send this appeal on to his superiors, and wait for
orders, as he should have done, but thinking that he was doing a glorious
deed, he gathered a little force of eight hundred men together, and
cutting down the telegraph wires behind him, so that no orders could reach
him and stop him, he dashed into the Transvaal to the relief of
Johannesburg.

Almost within sight of Johannesburg he was met by the Boers, under their
leader, General Joubert.

Here a dastardly thing happened.

The Uitlanders, who had sent for this brave but foolish man, did not raise
a finger to help him, but stayed like cowards within the walls of their
city, while the little body of men, worn out with their long march, were
cut to pieces by their enemy.

At last, when all hope was at an end, and but a hundred and fifty were
left of his party, Dr. Jameson surrendered, and he and the remnant of his
men were taken prisoner and conveyed to Pretoria.

Great excitement was felt in both Cape Colony and England. Nobody wanted
to take the blame for the raid, but every one felt that if Dr. Jameson had
succeeded instead of having failed, England would have added the Transvaal
to her possessions, and said as little about it as possible.

Dr. Jameson having failed, matters were very different.

President Krueger demanded to know why England had allowed an armed force
to enter the territory of a country with which she was at peace, and
wished to know by whose authority the raid was made.

England at once declared that she had had no hand in the matter, and asked
that Dr. Jameson and the rest of the prisoners might be sent to her, to be
dealt with according to her laws.

After some delay President Krueger agreed to do this, and the remnant of
the famous raiders was shipped to England.

On their arrival they were tried for breaking the laws, and the officers
and Dr. Jameson were sente