Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Chapter 65

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Jameson over the Border—His Defeat and Capture—Sent to England for Trial—Arrest of Citizens by the Boers—Commuted Sentences—Final Release of all but Two—Interesting Days for a Stranger—Hard to Understand Either Side—What the Reformers Expected to Accomplish—How They Proposed to Do it—Testimonies a Year Later—A “Woman's Part”—The Truth of the South African Situation—“Jameson's Ride”—A Poem