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d yet leave a profit for the vendor. Our further ambition is, however, to translate it into all European tongues, and to send a free copy to every deputy and every newspaper on the Continent and in America. For this work money will be needed--a considerable sum. We propose to make an appeal to the public for these funds. Any sums which are sent to me or to my publisher will be devoted to this work. There cannot be too much, for the more we get the more we shall do. I may add that I have not burdened my pages with continual references. My quotations are reliable and can always, if necessary, be substantiated. A. CONAN DOYLE. UNDERSHAW, HINDHEAD: _January, 1902._ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. THE BOER PEOPLE 9 II. THE CAUSE OF QUARREL 23 III. THE NEGOTIATIONS 41 IV. SOME POINTS EXAMINED 61 V. THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE 73 VI. THE FARM-BURNING 84 VII. THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS 94 VIII. THE BRITISH SOLDIER IN SOUTH AFRICA 107 IX. FURTHER CHARGES AGAINST BRITISH TROOPS 123 X. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION 133 XI. CONCLUSIONS 150 THE WAR: ITS CAUSE AND CONDUCT CHAPTER I THE BOER PEOPLE It is impossible to appreciate the South African problem and the causes which have led up to the present war between the British Empire and the Boer republics without some knowledge, however superficial, of the past history of South Africa. To tell the tale one must go back to the beginning, for there has been complete continuity of history in South Africa, and every stage has depended upon that which has preceded it. No one can know or appreciate the Boer who does not know his past, for he is what his past has made him. It was about the time when Oliver Cromwell was at his zenith--in 1652, to be pedantically accurate--that the Dutch made their first lodgment at the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese had been there before them, but, repelled by the evil weather, and lured forward by rumours of gold, they had passed the true seat of empire, and had voyaged farther, to settle along the eastern coast. But the Dutchmen at the Ca
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