With "Bobs" and Krüger

THE AFRIKANDERS AND THEIR FEELINGS.

DURING this first month I had travelled nearly two thousand miles by rail and two hundred on foot, covering all of the more thickly populated portion of Cape Colony. Travelling first-class as the guest of the railway, I spent days at a time with representative people of all sec- tions, cooped up in narrow compartments, where tedium enforced conversation between the most reserved strangers. I was greatly impressed with the half-sullen gratification with which the most loyal Afrikanders viewed the recent reverses to the British forces at Magersfontein and at the Tugela.

CHAPTER X.

Riding up, we learned that everybody had left the place to watch the bombardment which was to begin at four o'clock ; so, retracing our steps a mile, we came to and climbed little "Spy Kopje," or signal-hill, dotted all over with generals, lords, dukes, and a prince or so, khaki-clad, with red collars as indications of rank, and a sprinkling of correspondents and colonels. On a point above everybody else were the signal corps wigwagging messages with flags to near-by commands, or heliographing eight miles far- ther east to General French ; back to Klip Drift, Jacobsdal and Modder River ; or into the Boer laager where General Cronje and nearly four thousand burghers of the Free State, heroes of Majuba and Magersfontein, with several hundred of their women, were encamped in the river-bed, four miles above.

CHAPTER XI.

Half-way there we came upon a regiment of the Black Watch, of Magersfontein fame. While Amery was talk- ing to a group of officers I rode off to one side, toward some rising ground, to get a better view of the country.

CHAPTER XI.

*' It is a mistake to call the Boer Generals barbarians," remarked the Major, as he removed a choice cigar from between his teeth, to drain from a china teacup the last drops of the first decent coffee that had passed his lips since before the dark days of Magersfontein.

BEGINNING ALL OVER AGAIN

The Battlefield of Spionkop. This photograph has the unique distinction of having been subjected to an attempted suppression by two Governments. Representing the British dead on the field of Spionkop three days un- buried, with pockets turned inside out and shoes taken off, the Boers did not relish this evidence of their love of loot. On the other hand, being evidences of the terrible slaughter inflicted on the English, Lord Roberts ordered the confiscation and destruction of all plates and prints at Bloem- fontein. Both Boer and British attempts at suppression failed, and a large, surreptitious sale of the Spionkop pictures was carried on, at eight shillings each.

THE AFRIKANDERS AND THEIR FEELINGS.

Behind the '* schantzes " at Spionkop. As they fell

AFRIKANDERS AND THEIR FEELINGS

The Burial Trenches at Spionkop, showing Englisli dead. Colonel Blake of the Irish American Brigade told the author that they were buried so carelessly that the first rainfall washed away the soil, leaving knees, elbows, feet, legs and arms protruding.

TYPES OF WAR CORRESPONDENTS

A Modern Ghoul." A Gennan photographer seen by English scouts at Spionkop after the battle piling up British dead, in order to make a par- ticularly gruesome photograph. One of the scouts, unable to control his indignation, took careful aim and shot the artist through the heart. This story, with the photograph, was given to the author by Dr. Vernon Har- court at Bloemfontein.