MRS. GENERAL LUCAS J. MEYER
(_Photograph by Leo Weinthal._)


MRS. OTTO KRANTZ, A BOER AMAZON
(_Photograph by R. Steger._)


MRS. COMMANDANT-GENERAL LOUIS BOTHA
(_Photograph by Leo Weinthal, Pretoria._)


GENERAL HENDRIK SNYMAN


FIRST BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED NEAR DUNDEE
(_Photograph by Reginald Sheppard._)




CHAPTER I

THE WAY TO THE BOER COUNTRY


Immediately after war was declared between Great Britain and the Boers of
the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, the two South African republics
became ostracised, in a great measure, from the rest of the civilised
world. The cables and the great ocean steamship lines, which connected