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Title: Woman's Endurance

Author: A.D.L.

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Woman's Endurance.

BY A.D.L., B.A., CHAPLAIN IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMP, BETHULIE,
O.R.C., 1901.

CAPE TOWN: PRINTED BY S.A. NEWS CO., LTD., 1904.

To THE REV. H.C.J. BECKER, OF BETHULIE, O.R.C.

PREFACE.

_DEAR READER_,--

_A perusal of the following "Introduction" by the Author, and of his
true and touching "Diary," will assuredly carry the conviction into
your own soul, if you still require conviction, that our South
African women were the heroines of the late deplorable war._

_May this pathetic relation bring us all nearer to one another in
sympathy and love; and serve to awaken in every woman's breast the
desire to emulate and perpetuate the pure faith and noble devotion
which these Sisters of ours have handed down to us and to all
posterity as their priceless legacy._

_In undertaking the responsibility for the publication of this
"Diary," I may simply state that the proceeds will be given towards
the support of the Orphanage at Bethulie._

_Yours, etc.,_
D. DE VILLIERS,
_Secretary, Boer Relief Committee_.
CAPE TOWN.

INTRODUCTION.

This Journal was written in the Bethulie Concentration Camp just two
years ago.

A few days after my return from Europe (whither I had gone for six
months on the completion of a Theological course at Stellenbosch), a
telegram came from the Deputy Administrator of the Orange River
Colony, through the Rev. Wm. Robertson, inviting me to work as
Chaplain in one of the Concentration Camps.

The Rev. Mr. Pienaar, who had received a similar invitation, and I
therefore journeyed down to Bloemfontein a few days later. We
received great courtesy at the hands of Sir Hamilton Gould-Adams, the
Deputy Administrator, and every kindness from Mr. Robertson.

In a few days it was finally decided that