BOOK II

I. POLITICAL SUICIDE--HERESY 106

II. A GREENHORN 112

III. GOLD BEYOND THE DREAM OF AVARICE--DESPISED 115

IV. THE JEW 119

V. THE JEW AGAIN--DISCOURAGED 122

VI. HISTORY _A LA_ RHODES 128

VII. THE REPTILE PRESS OF SOUTH AFRICA 133

VIII. THE TRANSVAAL’S PRESIDENT AND FLAG INSULTED BY THE UITLANDERS 135

IX. THE NATIONAL UNION MANIFESTO 140

X. A FISHING PARTY ON THE VAAL RIVER 144

XI. NEWS OF AN UNEXPECTED INVASION AND BREAK UP OF THE FISHING PARTY 149

XII. OFF TO THE WAR--A NIGHT’S RIDE--TERRIBLE NEWS 155

XIII. THE BATTLE OF DOORNKOP 164

XIV. PROBABLE DANGERS AVERTED BY DOORNKOP’S FIGHT 173

XV. THE FIGHTING PREVIOUS TO DOORNKOP’S BATTLE 178

XVI. JOHANNESBURG DURING THE CRISIS 185

XVII. THE FOLLY OF C. LEONARD AND HIS CLIQUE 191

XVIII. PRETORIA DURING THE CRISIS 194

XIX. POSSIBILITIES AND PROBABILITIES 199

XX. JOHANNESBURG SURRENDERS UNCONDITIONALLY--HOME RULE FOR THE RAND 210

XXI. THE CHARTERED PRESS AGAIN--JONAH! 213

XXII. OUT OF EVIL CAME GREAT GOOD TO THE TRANSVAAL 218

XXIII. MIJNHEER MEYER CLAIMS HIS HORSE, ONLY TO GIVE IT UP AGAIN--THE SONG OF THE BOER 226

XXIV. IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH 230

XXV. THERE IS MERCY, EVEN AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR, IF YE REPENT 236

XXVI. STEVE MEETS A SYMPATHETIC BRITISHER--A RETROSPECT 242

XXVII. A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE 250

XXVIII. LOVE AT LAST 269

LIFE IN AFRIKANDERLAND