ly West, Rhodes elected for, 28
Barnato, Barney, 24, 137
his awe of Rhodes, 60
Beit, Alfred, 24
Bender, Rev. Dr., Chief Rabbi of Cape Town, 194
Bloemfontein, concentration camp at, 182, 184
Bloemfontein Conference, the, 13, 16, 140
failure of, 67, 104
Boer War, concentration camps, 157 _et seq._
not a war of annihilation, 3
prime cause of, 128, 137, 139, 178
Rhodes' prophecy, 67
Boers, the, mistrust of England after the Raid, 200
pre-war hygienic conditions of, 160 (_Cf. also_ Dutch)
Botha, General, 83
imperialism of, xii, 229
British Empire, South Africa added to, 3
British Government, the, a missed opportunity, 41
and Boer concentration camps, 162
British South Africa Company, constitution of, 44
(_See also_ Chartered Company)
Brooke-Hunt, Miss, in Pretoria, 186
Buller, Sir Redvers, and siege of Kimberley, 94, 95

C

Cape Colony, diamond fields, 3
loyalty to England, 129
martial law in, 214 _et seq._
mutiny of Dutch in, 8
overcrowded prisons, 217
Rhodes as Premier, 30, 43, 44
Sir Gordon Sprigg as Premier, 99, 121
Cape to Cairo Railway, 81, 124, 229
Cape Town, influx of refugees, 191 _et seq._
Chamberlain, Joseph, 104
policy of, 133
Chartered Company of South Africa, 25, 26, 78, 80
sinister rumours, 45
Concentration camps, 141, 142, 157
hygienic conditions of, 160
inner organisation, 173
Miss Hobhouse's charges, and Mrs. Henry Fawcett's reply to, 165, 181
necessity for, 161
rations, 171
Cronje, General, 94

D

De Beers Consolidated Mines, 24, 80, 112
power of Company, 114
Delagoa Bay, 91
Dop tax, the, 223
Dutch, the, and Dr. Jameson, 149
and Sir A. Milner, 151
enmity with English, 11
mutiny in Cape Colony, 8
popularity of Rhodes with, 30, 43, 73
reconciliation with English, 129 (_Cf. also_ Boers)

E

Eckstein, F., 97, 197
England acquires the Transvaal, 1
the question of concentration camps, 159
English, the
as colonists, 14, 15
enmity with the Dutch, 11
reconciliation with the Dutch, 129

F

Fawcett, Mrs. Henry, reply to Miss Hobhouse, 181
Frenchman, a, and a Johannesburg mining property, 64

G

Glen Grey Act, the, 126
Graaf Reinet, martial law in, 216
Green Point (Cape Town) concentration camp, 170
Groote Schuur, the house and g