ON THE EVE OF

THE WAR

A NARRATIVE OF IMPRESSIONS
DURING A JOURNEY IN CAPE COLONY
THE FREE STATE, THE TRANSVAAL
NATAL, AND RHODESIA

SEPTEMBER, 1899, TO JANUARY, 1900

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"TREKKING" DIFFICULTIES IN RHODESIA (from a Photograph by the Author)

DUTCH FARM IN CAPE COLONY (from a Sketch by the Hon.
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil)

Frontispiece

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THE RAADSAAL, BLOEMFONTEIN (from a Photograph by the
Author)

PRESIDENT KRUGER DRIVING AWAY FROM THE RAADSAAL,
PRETORIA, AFTER RECEIVING THE BRITISH DESPATCH
ON SEPT. 25, 1899 (from a Photograph by the Author)
THE VAAL RIVER (from a Sketch by the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn
Cecil)

AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE, PIETERMARITZBURG (from a Photo-
graph by the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil)
LADYSMITH CAMP (from a Photograph by the Author)
IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSE WHEN FIRST RECRUITED, PIETER-
MARITZBURG (from a Photograph by the Author)

THE MAIL COACH BETWEEN SALISBURY AND BULAWAYO (from a Photograph by the Author)

ON THE ROAD BETWEEN UMTALI AND INYANGA, N.E. of
SALISBURY (from a Photograph by the Author)
ABOVE THE ALBERT FALLS, UMGENI RIVER, NATAL (from
a Photograph by the Author)

"WASH-AWAY" ON THE BEIRA RAILWAY (from a Photograph
by the Author)

MAP ILLUSTRATING THE AUTHOR'S JOURNEY

The binding of this book was designed by the Hon. Margaret Amherst.