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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER LXVII. | ||
Jameson's Raid — The Reform Committee's Difficult Task — Possible Plans — Advice that Jameson Ought to Have — The War of 1881 and its Lessons — Statistics of Losses of the Combatants — Jameson's Battles — Losses on Both Sides — The Military Errors — How the Warfare Should Have Been Carried on to Be Successful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER LXVIII. | ||
Judicious Mr. Rhodes — What South Africa Consists of — Johannesburg—The Gold Mines — The Heaven of American Engineers — What the Author Knows about Mining — Description of the Boer — What Should be Expected of Him — What Was — A Dizzy Jump for Rhodes — Taxes — Rhodesian Method of Reducing Native Population — Journeying in Cape Colony — The Cars— The Country — The Weather — Tamed Blacks — Familiar Figures in King William's Town — Boer Dress — Boer Country Life — Sleeping Accommodations — The Reformers in Boer Prison — Torturing a Black Prisoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CHAPTER LXIX. | ||
An Absorbing Novelty — The Kimberley Diamond Mines — Discovery of Diamonds — The Wronged Stranger — Where the Gems Are — A Judicious Change of Boundary — Modern Machinery and Appliances — Thrilling Excitement in Finding a Diamond — Testing a Diamond — Fences — Deep Mining by Natives in the Compound — Stealing — Reward for the Biggest Diamond — A Fortune in Wine — The Great Diamond — Office of the De Beer
Co. — Sorting the Gems — Cape Town — The Most Imposing Man in British Provinces — Various Reasons for his Supremacy — How He Makes Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| CONCLUSION. | ||
Table Rock — Table Bay — The Castle — Government and Parliament
— The Club — Dutch Mansions and their Hospitality — Dr. John Barry and his Doings — On the Ship Norman — Madeira — Arrived in Southhampton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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