Boer artillerists waiting under shell fire for the British advance 133 The battle of Pretoria, June 4, 1900; Boer guns in action; British advance along the first range of hills 137 The unpicturesqueness of modern war. In the range of this photograph of the battle of Diamond Hill the hardest fighting is going on. Twenty cannon and 3,000 rifles are firing, and two regiments are charging; but no more can be seen than is shown above 145 A difficult kopje; two hundred men are hiding behind the rocks 145 U. S. Officer providing for feeding the poor 147 Camp of a transport train in General French’s supply column 151 A base of supplies at de Aar Junction 155 An improvised commissariat cart in South Africa 162 A soldier with three months’ provisions 169 Major Burnham, the American Chief of Scouts for Lord Roberts 171 The old and the new military bridge at Modder River 174 Defense of a line of communication in the Transvaal 176 Canadian transport at a difficult drift 181 Cape carts with British officers’ personal luggage; nearly every officer had one of these carts 182 A British transport train on the veldt 183 Canadian transport at a difficult drift 187 The Guards and mounted infantry at Pretoria Station 191 Armament on an American transport 194 British soldiers leaving the _Sumner_ after having exchanged uniforms with Americans 199 American transport _Sumner_ in the harbor at Malta 205 A British transport taken from the merchant marine 205 The Eighth United States Infantry going ashore for drill at Malta 211 Colonel Jocelyn and Captain Croxton, Eighth U. S. Infantry, at Malta 211 Mr. R. H. Davis in Pretoria 217 Consul Hay and Vice-Consul Coolidge bidding good-by to Captain Slocum at Pretoria 222 A. D. T. Messenger James Smith in front of President Krüger’s house, immediately after presenting the message from the American children 226 The battle of Pretoria: Boers awaiting the British advance under artillery fire 229 The battle of Pretoria: British naval guns shelling forts 229