Refits--Remounts--Regimental Pets--Civilian Hospitality and Soldiers' Homes--Soldiers' Christian Association Work-- Rudyard Kipling's Mistake--All Fools' Day--Eastertide in Bloemfontein--The Epidemic and the Hospitals--All hands and houses to the rescue--A sad sample of Enteric--Church of England Chaplains at work. CHAPTER III THROUGH WORLDS UNKNOWN AND FROM WORLDS UNKNOWN 45 A Pleasure Jaunt--Onwards, but Whither!--That Pom-Pom again --A Problem not quite solved--A Touching Sight--Rifle Firing and Firing Farms--Boer Treachery and the White Flag--The Pet Lamb still lives and learns--Right about face--From Worlds Unknown--The Bushmen and their Australian Chaplains. CHAPTER IV QUICK MARCH TO THE TRANSVAAL 57 A Comedy--A Tragedy--A Wide Front and a Resistless Force-- Brandfort--"Stop the War" Slanders--A Prisoner who tried to be a Poet--Militant Dutch Reformed Predikants--Our Australian Chaplain's pastoral experiences--The Welsh Chaplain. CHAPTER V TO THE VALSCH RIVER AND THE VAAL 70 The Sand River Convention--Railway Wrecking and Repairing-- The Tale, and Tails, of a Singed Overcoat--Lord Roberts as Hospital Visitor--President Steyn's Sjambok--A Sunday at last that was also a Sabbath--Military Police on the March--A General's glowing eulogy of the Guards--Good News by the way-- Over the Vaal at last. CHAPTER VI A CHAPTER ABOUT CHAPLAINS 88 A Chaplain who found the Base became the Front--Pathetic Scenes in Hospital--A Battlefield Scene no less Pathetic--Look on this Picture, and on that--A third-class Chaplain who proved a first-rate Chaplain--Running in the Wrong Man--A Wainman who proved a real Waggoner--Three bedfellows in a barn--A fourth-class Chaplain that was also a first-rate Chaplain--A Parson Prisoner in the hands of the Boers--Caring for the Wounded--How the Chaplain's own Tent was bullet-riddled--A Sample Set of Sunday Services. CHAPTER VII THE HELPFUL WORK OF THE OFFICIATING CLERGY 103 At Cape Town and Wynberg--Saved from Drowning to sink in Hospital--A Pleasant Surprise--The Soldiers' Reception Committee--The other way about--Our near kinship to the Boers --More good Work on our right Flank. CHAPTER VIII GETTING TO THE GOLDEN CITY 113 An elaborate night toilet--Capturing Clapham Junction--Dear diet and dangerous--No Wages but the Sjambok--The Gold Mines --The Soldiers' Share--The Golden City--Astonishing the Natives. CHAPTER IX PRETORIA--THE CITY OF ROSES 127 Whit-Monday and Wet Tuesday--"Light after Dark"--Why the Surrender?--Taking Possession--"Resurgam"--A Striking Incident--No Canteens and no Crime. CHAPTER X PRETORIAN INCIDENTS AND IMPRESSIONS 142