Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Taavi Kalju, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net FROM CAPETOWN TO LADYSMITH AN UNFINISHED RECORD OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BY G.W. STEEVENS AUTHOR OF 'WITH KITCHENER TO KHARTUM,' 'IN INDIA,' ETC., ETC. EDITED BY VERNON BLACKBURN _THIRD IMPRESSION_ WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCC _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ WITH KITCHENER TO KHARTUM. With 8 Maps and Plans. Twenty-first Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. "This book is a masterpiece. Mr Steevens writes an English which is always alive and alert.... The description of the battle of Omdurman reaches, we do not hesitate to say, the high-water mark of literature."--_Spectator._ IN INDIA. With a Map. Third Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. "To read this book is a liberal education in one of the most interesting and least known portions of our Empire."--_St James's Gazette._ THE LAND OF THE DOLLAR. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. "One of the smartest books of travel which has appeared for a long time past.... Brings the general appearance of Transatlantic urban and rural life so clearly before the mind's eye of the reader, that a perusal of his work almost answers the purpose of a personal inspection. New York has probably never been more lightly and cleverly sketched."--_Daily Telegraph._ WITH THE CONQUERING TURK. With 4 Maps. Cheaper Edition. Demy 8vo, 6s. "This is a remarkably bright and vivid book. There is a delicious portrait of the jovial aide-de-camp, plenty of humorous touches of wayside scenes, servants' tricks, dragoman's English, and vagaries of cuisine."--_St James's Gazette._ EGYPT IN 1898. With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 6s. "Set forth in a style that provides plenty of entertainment.... Bright and readable."--_Times._ WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, EDINBURGH AND LONDON. CONTENTS. PAGE I. FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE STRUGGLE. First impressions--Denver with a dash of Delhi--Government House-- The Legislative Assembly--A wrangling debate--A demonstration of the unemployed--The menace of coming war 1 II. THE ARMY CORPS--HAS NOT LEFT ENGLAND! A little patch of white tents--A dream of distance--The desert of the Karroo--War at last--A campaign without headquarters--Waiting for the Army Corps 10 III. A PASTOR'S POINT OF VIEW. An ideal of Arcady--Rebel Burghersdorp--Its monuments--Dopper theology--An interview with one of its professors 19 IV. WILL IT BE CIVIL WAR? On the border of the Free State--An appeal to the Colonial Boers-- The beginning of warlike rumours--A commercial and social boycott-- The Boer secret service--The Basutos and their mother, the Queen-- Boer brutality to Kaffirs 28 V. LOYAL ALIWAL: A TRAGI-COMEDY.