The next figure (85A) illustrates the type of base post office mark used in France, and no doubt similar marks are being used on these stamps supplied to the Indian forces engaged in Egypt and elsewhere during the present war. _Fig._ 85B although not definitely identified is probably an Indian army postmark in use in France. The first instalment of the "I.E.F." Indian stamps issued to troops included: 3 pies, grey (Fig. 76), 230,400 stamps. ½ anna, green (Fig. 77), 768,000 " 1 anna, rose-carmine (Fig. 78), 422,400 " 2 annas, mauve (Fig. 79), 204,800 " 2½ annas, ultramarine (Fig. 80) 51,200 " 3 " orange-brown (Fig. 81), 51,200 " 4 " olive (Fig. 82), 51,200 " 8 " purple (Fig. 83), 25,600 " 12 " dull claret (Fig. 84), 25,600 " 1 rupee, green and brown (Fig. 85), 9600 " and the following supplies of postcards and envelopes. ¼ anna inland postcard, single, 1800 reams ¼ anna inland postcard, reply, 700 " 1 anna international single postcard, 100 " ½ anna envelopes, small size, 1100 " [Illustration: 85B.] CHAPTER III. SOUTH AFRICAN WARS.--Transvaal--Orange River Colony--Krugersdorp-- Kuruman--Lydenburg--Mafeking--Pietersburg--Rustenburg--Schweizer Renecke--Volksrust--Vryburg--Wolmaranstad--The Union--South African War of 1914. [Illustration: 86 87] TRANSVAAL. The stamps of the Transvaal illustrate the important changes through which the country has passed during the past forty years. _Fig._ 86 represents an early stamp of the Republic, while the next figure (_Fig._ 87) is just one example of several denoting the annexation of the country by the British in 1877. There are several types of the "V.R. Transvaal" overprint, as in _Figs._ 88-90. [Illustration: 88 89 90] These were followed by stamps bearing the portrait of the British Sovereign (_Fig._ 91). A great blow to British prestige was struck in 1881, and the result of the disaster of Majuba Hill was the establishment of a Second Republic which in its turn overprinted the Queen Victoria stamps with a Dutch inscription "Een Penny" (_Fig._ 92), subsequently returning to the original Arms design of South African Republic stamps (_Fig._ 86). [Illustration: 91 92 93]