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I. How the Reserves came up 3

II. How the Army left England 12

III. How the Wounded came Home 40

PART II.

IN THE WAKE OF THE ARMY

IV. The Long Sea Road 51

V. Scenes at Cape Town 61

VI. In the Eddies of a Great Whirl 72

VII. Magersfontein and Kimberley 85

VIII. Paardeberg 97

PART III.

LORD ROBERTS'S ADVANCE TO BLOEMFONTEIN

IX. The Boer Panic at Osfontein 105

X. The March on Dreifontein 115

XI. The Battle of Dreifontein and the March on Bloemfontein 123

XII. Retracing the Steps of the Army 132

PART IV.

AN EXPEDITION WITH LORD METHUEN

XIII. In the Field again 147

XIV. The Capture of Boers at Tweefontein 156

XV. An Elusive Enemy 164

XVI. A Surprise on the March 179

XVII. Under the Red Cross Flag 188

PART V.

WITH THE FLYING COLUMN TO MAFEKING

XVIII. A Strategic Secret 205

XIX. The Departure from Kimberley 209

XX. From Taungs to Vryburg 221

XXI. Nearing the Goal 230

XXII. We Repel an Attack and Join Forces with Plumer 238

XXIII. The Fighting on the Molopo 248

XXIV. Mafeking at Last 260

XXV. A Memorial of the Siege 271

XXVI. Good-bye to Mafeking 277

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FIELD-MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS OF KANDAHAR,
K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., V.C. _Frontispiece_

MR. G. LENTHAL CHEATLE, F.R.C.S., CONSULTING
SURGEON TO HER MAJESTY'S FORCES
IN SOUTH AFRICA _To face page_ 72

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL P.S. LORD METHUEN,
K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G.