The wise administrator, who had studied human nature so closely as he had done politics, had based his judgments on the knowledge which he had acquired of the spirit of colonisation which makes Great Britain so superior to any other nation in the world, and his belief that her marvellous spirit of adaptation was bound to make itself felt in South Africa as it had elsewhere. Sir Alfred Milner knew that as time went on the Afrikanders would realise that their erstwhile enemies had given them the position to which they had always aspired, a position which entitled them to take a place among the other great nations of the world. He knew, too, that their natural spirit of pride and of vanity would make them cherish the Empire that had allowed them to realise their ambitions of the past. Until the war they had been proud of their gold and of their diamonds; after the war they would be proud of their country. And by the consciousness which would gradually come to them of the advantages which their Federation under the British flag had brought to them they would become also ardent British patriots--blessing the day when, in a passing fit of insanity, goaded into it by people who had never seen clearly the situation, President Kruger had declared war on England. INDEX Africa, South, charm of, 22 conquest of, 1 drunkenness in, 223 English colonists, 14 prior to Boer War, 6 Union of (_see_ Union) Afrikander Bond, 86, 99 and Rhodes, 73, 82, 84 and Sir A. Milner, 134 Afrikander party compel Rhodes' resignation, 50 Aliwal North concentration camp, 182 America's response to concentration camp appeal, 165 B Barkly West, Rhodes elected for, 28 Barnato, Barney, 24, 137 his awe of Rhodes, 60 Beit, Alfred, 24 Bender, Rev. Dr., Chief Rabbi of Cape Town, 194 Bloemfontein, concentration camp at, 182, 184 Bloemfontein Conference, the, 13, 16, 140 failure of, 67, 104 Boer War, concentration camps, 157 _et seq._ not a war of annihilation, 3 prime cause of, 128, 137, 139, 178 Rhodes' prophecy, 67 Boers, the, mistrust of England after the Raid, 200 pre-war hygienic conditions of, 160 (_Cf. also_ Dutch) Botha, General, 83 imperialism of, xii, 229 British Empire, South Africa added to, 3 British Government, the, a missed opportunity, 41 and Boer concentration camps, 162 British South Africa Company, constitution of, 44 (_See also_ Chartered Company) Brooke-Hunt, Miss, in Pretoria, 186 Buller, Sir Redvers, and siege of Kimberley, 94, 95 C