CONTENTS. Vll 



CHAPTER IX. 

 How THE DIAMOND FIELDS WERE ACQUIRED BY 



ENGLAND. PAGE 



A Land Swindle Incompetence of the Orange River 

 Free State Government Difficulties David Arnott 

 Cornelius Kok Waterboer The Scheme Arnott's 

 Triumph Result A Royal Commission Appointed 

 Losses of the Kaffirs Redress Major Lanyon " Hush 

 Money" Ultimate Purchase The Griqua War - -135 



CHAPTER X. 



THE TRANSVAAL. 



The Political History Gladstone's Mistakes The War 

 Boer Tactics Loss of an Opportunity after Majuba 

 Administration Inexcusably Ignorant A Boer Account 

 of Majuba Hill Boers will not Fight in the Open What 

 the War cost Me My Stay in the Transvaal during the 

 War My Escape A Midnight Adventure How the 

 News was received at Mafeking Topography Pastur- 

 age Agriculture Horse-sickness The Gold Fields 

 Kaffir Labour Paul Kruger His Thrift His Youth 

 His Hatred of the Blacks His Cruelties His Rise 

 Poverty of the Boers Cheating the Kaffirs Native Wars 

 Ignorance of the Boers The cause of the strained re- 

 lations between the Transvaal and England The Con- 

 vention The Characteristics of the Transvaal Govern- 

 ment Big Game necessary to Boer success "Treks" 

 Boers would have been massacred but for Sir Bartle 

 Frere Robbing Kaffirs Transvaal Government a Dis- 

 grace to Civilisation British Supremacy a " Dead Letter " 

 Some Characteristics of the Boer Crime Sins 

 Library of a Transvaaler Immigration to Johannes- 

 burg Famine, Fever, Rinderpest Its National Debt 

 Delagoa Bay ......... i^s 



CHAPTER XI. 



RHODESIA. 



Rhodesia in 1897 Native Question The Chartered 

 Company Mineral Resources of the Company Mata- 

 beleland as a Stock Raising Country Agricultural Suc- 

 cess Depends upon Mines being worked profitably 

 Difficulties of Transport Horse-sickness The Ass 

 Camels Game in Rhodesia Shooting Licenses 



