Kekewich, Colonel, entrusted with defence of Kimberley, 94 Kimberley, diamond mines in, 17, 24, 87 relief of, 116 Rhodes' purchase of plots in, 21 Rhodes' secret negotiations, 76 siege of, 75, 83, 94 the I.D.B. Act in operation, 113 Kitchener, Lord, and Boer concentration camps, 159 intervenes in the Schoeman case, 221 Rhodes and, 147 Koopman, Mrs. van, author's admiration for, 48 disillusionment of, 47, 74, 146 her alarm at raid rumours, 45 intimacy with Rhodes, 40 Rhodes denies raid projected, 46 under police supervision, 48 Kruger, President, 30, 53, 198 and Mrs. van Koopman, 40 candid criticisms of Rhodes, 92, 93 death sentence for Reformers, 51 "refreshers" for, 197 Rhodes attempts alliance with, 90 Rhodes' _bete-noire_, 150 Rhodes' duplicity, 74 warned against Sir A. Milner, 104 L Ladysmith, relief of, 116 Lobengula, King, 36 and Rhodesia, 25 Cecil Rhodes and, 19 his son becomes one of Rhodes' gardeners, 37 Loyalists and concentration camps, 174 M Mafeking concentration camp, 186 Majuba, defeat of British at, 73 Martial law in Cape Colony, 214 _et seq._ "Martyrdom of Man" (Reade's), its influence on Rhodes, 126 Matabele Rebellion, the, Rhodes' courage in, 43 Matabeleland, 19 acquired by the Chartered Company, 26, 90, 112 Matoppo Hills, an historic meeting, 43 Rhodes' burial-place, 72 Maxwell, Lady, an appeal by, 164 Merriman, Mr., 134, 150 severs relations with Rhodes, 73 Methuen, Lord, mandate to Rhodes, 95 Milner, Sir (Viscount) Alfred, 4, 58 a hint to Rhodes, 147 and the Boers, 12, 85, 132 and Rhodes, 74, 140, 148 and the De Beers Company, 115 appointed Governor of Cape Colony, 8, 85 dignified speech, 134 efforts for peace, 156 his great object, 86 influence of, 104 misunderstood and misjudged 7, 12, 85, 104, 107, 108, 180, 228 overruled from Whitehall, 135 policy of conciliation, 130 reports from Rhodes on defence of Kimberley, 94 Rhodes' distrust of, 13, 75 the refugees and, 210 the South African League, 90 transferred to Johannesburg, 99 N Napoleon, Pius VII. on, 35 Neethling, Mr., and martial law in Cape Colony, 215 O Orange Free State, flight of the populace, 158 illusions of the Dutch in, 176 resources of, 8 P Pius VII., Pope, on Napoleon, 35 Polish Jews, plight of, 193 Pretoria, British flag hoisted at, 226 Rhodes tabooed at, 211 Rhodes visits Kruger at, 91 soldiers' institutes at, 186 R