TREATMENT OF UITLANDERS, FRANCHISE, VENALITY, BRIBERY 25 MONSTER PETITION, JAMESON INCURSION, ARMAMENTS 37 BLOEMFONTEIN CONFERENCE, BOER ULTIMATUM 43 BOER LANGUAGE 52 THE DUTCH COTERIE, ITS SEAT IN HOLLAND 57 AFRIKANER BOND--OUTLINES AND PROGRAMME 62 PACIFIC POLICY OF GREAT BRITAIN 70 PRESS PROPAGANDA--SECRET SERVICE--TRADE RIVALRIES 72 DISLOYALTY OF COLONIAL BOERS 82 PORTUGUESE TERRITORY--TRANSVAAL LOW VELDT--MALARIA--HORSE SICKNESS 89 CLIMATE AND TOPOGRAPHY 95 BOER PREPAREDNESS FOR WAR 108 ALLIANCE OF ORANGE FREE STATE WITH TRANSVAAL--SUZERAINTY SQUABBLE--TRANSVAAL ARMAMENTS PRIOR TO JAMESON RAID 115 THE TRANSVAAL DYNAMITE AND EXPLOSIVES MONOPOLY 122 BOER FIGHTING STRENGTH 124 BOER CONSERVATISM, EDUCATION, DUNDEE DOSSIER, ANTI-ENGLISH PAMPHLET ENTITLED "A HUNDRED YEARS' INJUSTICE" 126 AN OLD FREE STATER'S ADMONITION 137 MODUS VIVENDI SUGGESTED BY OLD FREE STATER 143 MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S POLICY TO AVERT WAR 150 AFRIKANER BOND GUILT IN GRADATIONS 155 RESUME 161 BOERS' NATIVE POLICY 167 ENGLAND'S NATIVE AND COLONIAL POLICY 172 OCCULT OPERATIONS AND AGENCIES 178 RELIGION 184 PHYSIQUE AND HABITS 193 PRESIDENT KRUeGER 207 PEACE ADJUSTMENTS 212 INTRODUCTION Apart from the progress of the present Anglo-Boer war a world-wide interest has been excited also upon the question of its actual origin. Much disparity of opinion prevails yet as to how it was provoked and upon which side the guilt of it all lay. English statesmen of noblest character and best discriminating gifts are seen professing opposite convictions; one party earnestly asserting the complete blamelessness of their Government, whilst the other, with equally sincere assurance, denounces the responsible Ministry for having provoked a most unjust war against a totally inoffensive people, whose only fault consisted in asserting its love of freedom, and for thus plunging the entire British nation into blackest guilt deserving universal reprobation, a blot and stigma upon Her Majesty's reign.