SOUTH AFRICAN LIGHT HORSE, BRABANT'S HORSE, AND DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S VOLUNTEER RIFLES 120 STRATHCONA'S HORSE 184 THE CAPE TOWN HIGHLANDERS 200 2. _FULL-PAGE PLATES_ PAGE THE DASH FOR KIMBERLEY--THE 10TH HUSSARS CROSSING KLIP DRIFT 32 THE LAST STAND MADE BY THE BOERS BEFORE KIMBERLEY 36 CAPTURE OF A BOER CONVOY BY GENERAL FRENCH'S TROOPS 40 THE BATTLE OF PAARDEBERG 56 CRONJE'S STRONGHOLD 64 CRONJE SURRENDERS TO LORD ROBERTS 72 CRONJE'S FORCE ON THEIR MARCH SOUTH 80 SHELL FROM THE NAVAL BRIGADE DISPERSING BOERS 96 THE FORMAL SURRENDER OF BLOEMFONTEIN 108 SLEEPLESS MAFEKING 112 THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH--THE LAST RUSH AT HLANGWANE HILL 128 IN BELEAGUERED LADYSMITH--WATCHING FOR BULLER FROM OBSERVATION HILL 152 HINDOO REFUGEES FROM THE TRANSVAAL IN CAMP AT CAPE TOWN 168 CONVEYING WOUNDED TO WYNBERG HOSPITAL CAMP 172 THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF BLOEMFONTEIN--AN EVENING CONCERT IN MARKET SQUARE BY THE PIPERS OF THE HIGHLAND BRIGADE 176 COLONEL PLUMER'S GALLANT ATTEMPT TO RELIEVE MAFEKING FROM THE NORTH 208 3. _FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS_ PAGE THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY, K.G. 8 LIEUT.-GENERAL THOMAS KELLY-KENNY, C.B. 24 GENERAL CRONJE 48 MAJOR-GENERAL A. FITZROY HART, C.B. 136 MAJOR-GENERAL H. J. T. HILDYARD, C.B. 144 BRIGADIER-GENERAL THE EARL OF DUNDONALD, C.B. 156 LIEUT.-GENERAL HON. N. G. LYTTELTON, C.B. 160 MR. M. T. STEYN, LATE PRESIDENT ORANGE FREE STATE 192 4. _MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT_ PAGE SHELL PICKED UP IN KIMBERLEY STREETS 15 "LONG CECIL" MADE AT DE BEERS MINES 21 PLACARD ERECTED BY MR. RHODES 27 TYPICAL UNDERGROUND DWELLING AT KIMBERLEY 36 10TH HUSSARS WITH NORDENFELDT GUN 46 PLAN OF PAARDEBERG 57 GUNS CAPTURED AT PAARDEBERG 68 BOER TRENCHES AT PAARDEBERG 78 MARKET SQUARE, MAFEKING 85 GUN MADE IN MAFEKING 87 DIRECTING AN ARMY FROM A MILITARY BALLOON 102 FACSIMILE OF "THE MAFEKING MAIL" 114