Birth, Education, etc.--Paul Kruger at Ten Years--Appearance and Manners--The Boer of Boers--Daily Life--His Grand Passion--Facts of History--Kruger's Chinese Wall--A Misleading Reputation--Racial Prejudices--Free and Independent Krugerism--Kruger's Nepotism CHAPTER III. The Boers and British Gold and Diamonds. Solomon's Ophir--How the Gold was Discovered--Early Gold Finds--Gold Production in 1897 and 1898--A Clear and Impartial Statement--Boss and Caste Government--Boer Intolerance--The "Dog in the Manger"--Commerce of the Transvaal--The First Stamp Mill--Diamonds for Toys--Boyle's Statement--Star of South Africa--Dry Diggings--Qualities of the Cape Diamonds--"Nature's Freemasonry" CHAPTER IV. The Cause of War. Conference With Kruger--Many Points of Difference--Kruger's Objection to Franchise--Qualifications for Citizenship--An Absolutely Fair Proposition--Ireland and Transvaal--What Mr. Chamberlain Wrote--A Statement by Kruger--Petition from Natal--Resolutions of the House of Commons of Canada--Kruger's Views on the Question--President Steyn as Peace-maker CHAPTER V. The Boer Declaration of War and the Gathering of the Armies. Both Sides Surprised--The Boer Ultimatum--Centres of Combat Quickly Defined--Important Decisions--Early Days of the War--Public Opinion--Two Popular Illusions CHAPTER VI. The First Bloodshed. First Battle of the War--Battle of Elandslaagte--Hard Work on Both Sides--General Buller Arrives--The Strategy of the Boers--Difficulties in Mobilizing the Troops--Boers Select Their Time Judiciously CHAPTER VII. The Magersfontein Battle. Heavy Losses on Both sides--The Hottest Fight of the British Army--Gatacre's Serious Reverse--Methuen's Failure--The Losses--What Dispatches Say--Sudden Change of Public Sentiment--The Official Boer Account CHAPTER VIII. Battle of Colenso.--Defeat of General Buller. "Tied by the Leg"--American and Boer Revolution Compared--New Conditions of Warfare--Plan of the Fight--Mistaken but Heroic Advance--Attack Fruitless--Boers Capture the Guns--Why Were the Guns Lost?--Conduct of the Men--Bad Light and no Smoke--Defeat Admitted--Dazed by Defeat--A Foredoomed Failure CHAPTER IX. The Siege of Ladysmith. Location of Ladysmith--Timely Arrival of the Naval Brigade--First Serious Reverse--Excitement in London--Symon's Death and Victory--Closing in of Ladysmith--A Narrow Escape--Caves Excavated for Families--Town Hall Struck--Midnight Bombardment--Hard Pressed--Boer Attempt to Storm--Thrilling Encounters--Relief at Last--British Troops Enter the Town CHAPTER X. The Relief of Kimberley--The Turn of the Tide of War Against the Boers. Difference in Positions of Roberts and Buller--A White Man's War--Each Step Carefully Considered--A Remarkable Cavalry Movement--Kimberley Relieved--Roberts and Buller in Co-operation--Roberts' Public Utterances--What a Military Specialist Says--The Spion Kop Affair--The Kop Retaken by the Boers CHAPTER XI.