AFGHANISTAN, Mr. Gladstone's
policy in, 116

Africa for the Afrikanders, motto

of Dutch in South Africa, ix, 177,
194, 248, 257, 279, 298, 301, 324,
341, 499, 504, 514, 600
Africa, South, British public
ignorant of the history of,
xiii, xiv; the struggle between
systems of sixteenth and nine-
teenth centuries caused the war,
xx; what its loss would have
entailed, xxv, xxvi; British rule
in, intentionally misrepresented
by historians, 2, 3, 16, 23; growth
of a nyth in, 3, 16, 17 (see
Slagter's Nek); different points
of view in history, 25-27; slavery
in, 28-31, 43; slaves and hired
natives in, 41, 42, 44; slaves
emancipated in, 38, 39, 47, 49,
50; native problem in, 46-49,
51, 169, 176, 181, 182; riot
caused by 'punishment book,' 51,
52; missionary work in, 52, 53;
suffered from Cobden's theories,
66; England's hybrid policy in,
73, 74, 84; England's wish for
confederation in, 83-85, 99, 101,
106, 164, 166, 167, 177, 181, 278;
troubles caused by jealousy of
the colonies in, 109, 182; poli-
tical position when Sir Bartle
Frere reached, 112, 113, 176, 177;
lack of administrative capacity
in, 120; objections to annexation
of the Transvaal in, 149; held
by different tenure from other
colonies, 174, 175; Zulu menace
to, 182; incapacity of British
Generals in, 183, 183 n.; Eng-
land's policy of compromise re-

sponsible for troubles in, 231, 269;
people's wish for Dutch rule in,
257, 277, 281; Gladstone's vacil-
lating policy in, 241, 269, 281,
336; Germany in, 281, 426; small
republics the curse of, 299, 322;
British supremacy threatened in,
292, 426, 723, 724; disloyalty of
Dutch farmers in, 1884, 320;
no centre for loyalists in, 323;
contribution to the navy from,
326; English troops in, October,
1899, 683

African League, South, loyalist, 496,
505, 565

African Republic, South. See
Transvaal State

African Republic, United South,

President Burgers' dream of a,
ix, 130-132, 157; the aim of
Afrikander policy, 195, 245, 248,
257, 290 m., 300, 301, 367, 456,
492, 723; to resemble United
States of America, 201; its
divisions would resemble South
America, 201; annexation of the
Transvaal fatal to any dream of,
203, 275; possible under Rhodes
as part of British Empire, 336-
339, 344, 360; to be ruled by
Afrikanders, 609

Afrikander insurrection, 1815, 7-
13; appeals for assistance to
native chiefs, 7, 22, 209; judges
in the Slagter's Nek rebellion,
12, 22; French element in the
race, 123-126; love of solitude,
127; incapable of government,
127, 129; native question with
the, 133-136, 169, 280; theories
of punishment to rebels, 167-172;
alarmed by the annexation of

the Transvaal, 157, 201, 202, 209;
treasonable aspirations, 157, 194,
194 m., 245, 298, 338, 527, 528,
672, 685, 686; spirit kept alive
by Dutch Reformed Church, 158;
unveracity, 228, 485 n., 487;
belief that England does not care
to hold South Africa, 245, 507,
508; three classes of, 280; ob-
jections to confederation under
England, 231; distrust of Eng-
land, 241; meeting at Graaf
Reinet, 290; views on the Lʊn-
don Convention, 309; documents
treat Cape and Transvaal Govern-
ments as identical, 318; Rhodes'
influence with the party, 349;
indignation at Jameson Raid, 445,
446; Viljoen's traitorous appeal

to

party, 1899, 497-499;
triumph at the Cape hastened
the war, 537; motives unveiled,
518-520; treason to England,
606, 607; views on Uitlander
franchise, 652; sympathy with
the Transvaal, 1899, 672, 673,
696; old antipathy to England,
690; reasons for contribution
to the navy, 691, 692; party
allows ammunition to be for-
warded to the Orange Free State,
696, 697

Afrikander Bond, objects of the,

196-199, 279-285, 289-291, 292,
294, 295, 300, 301, 347, 493; first-
fruits of Majuba surrender, 275;
founded, 276, 337; congratula-
tions to the Transvaal after the
retrocession, 1881, 276, 277;
objects to the British flag, 276,
277, 290; tries to boycott Eng-
land and the English, 278; en-
couraged by Die Patriot, 278;
its functions, 283; its constitu-
tion, 291, 294; Englishmen not
admitted to the, 291; return a
majority to Cape Parliament,
301, 525, 550, 596; supports Boer
raiders in Goshen, 315-318;
sympathy with the Transvaal,
286, 322-325, 420, 596; two
parties in the, 324, 325; Farmers'
Association joins the, 341; a
danger to England, 342; its
original policy, 351, 351 n., its
methods resemble the Land

League, 369; Rhodes' associa-
tion with the, 419, 494, 495;
Hofmeyr rules the, 434, 435;
threw off all disguise in its policy,
490, 504; deceived some of the
loyalists, 496; sudden wealth
from Transvaal Secret Service
Fund, 505, 705; prepared for a
struggle in Cape Colony, 514;
Schreiner's belief in its loyalty,
691; found Schreiner a con-
venient dupe, 696; warned that
British supremacy would be
maintained, 723, 724; miscon-
strues Milner's appeal, 724 ; pre-
fers English rule to German, 293.
See Hofmeyr and Schreiner
Agriculture in England suffered
through Free Trade, 64, 69
Albu, Mr., 567

Aliens Expulsion Law, Transvaal,
612

Aliwal, Treaty of, 85 n., 88
Amajuba Hill (Majuba), 22, 248,
249, 277, 498; Battle of, 260, 268;
effects of defeat, 261, 274, 337 ;
peace proposals after the defeat,
262

America, United States, 121, 290;
the negro question in, 47; case
for the Southern States in the
Civil War, 253, 254; the Consti-
tution of - in reference to the
executive, 246; the model for
Afrikanders' dream republic,
298; Southerners suffered less
than British in South Africa,
338; rebellion against England
of the, 406; two systems in
before the Civil War, 594
Ammunition in the Transvaal and

Orange Free State, 278, 280, 447,
448; Steyn's request to Trans-
vaal for, 603, 610; passed through
Cape Colony to the Republics,
1899, 696, 697

Argus, Cape newspaper, 178; on
Boer cruelty to natives, 136, 137;
approved the annexation, 195
Arnot, Mr., and the diamond-fields,
86-89

Asquith, Mr., xvii, 472, 513; his
speech at the Milner banquet,
xix, 461-463

Australia, 65, 120, 121, 352; Free
Trade proposed with, 69; auto-

nomy in, 174, 349; population of,
175, 176

Austria-Hungary, 626

Aylward, xxvi, 232; Frere on, 203,
223; Sir E. Henderson on, 204;
Major Crealock on, 204; his
fellow-workers, 204

Baralong tribes, 87, 212, 295, 311
Barkly, Sir Henry, ix; claimed the
diamond-fields for England, 87,
89, 90; evidence on Boer ill-
treatment of natives, 138, 139,
143

Barnard, Lady Anne, 'South Africa

a Century Ago,' by, 3, 3 n.; on
slaves and their owners, 30;
letter, 1797, 31; Mr. Barnard at
Stellenbosch, 31, 32; Dutch
could not believe that England
would remain at the Cape, 32;
on the insurrection at Graaf
Reinet, 36; visit to a Moravian
settlement, 1798, 39, 40, 41 n.
Barnato, Mr. Barney, 451
Barrow, Mr. John, Travels in
Africa,' on cruel laws in Cape
Colony, 11; his report decided
England to retain Cape Colony,
1806, 32, 33; insight into
French designs on the Cape,
1797, 34, 35; Cape Colony
under the Batavian Government,
36, 37; on Boer cruelty, 42, 43;
curious old story of a Dutch
Boer named Kruger, 473, 476
Bartlett, Rev. Dr., U.S.A., on
Uitlander grievances, 541, 542
Basuto chiefs, 71, 72, 321, 344
Batavian Republic, 3, 4; a French
province, 31, 32; Cape Colony
under the, 36, 37
Batlapin tribe, 86, 87, 212
Baviaan's River (Glen Lynden), 4,

9, 14, 17
Beaconsfield, Lord (Mr. Disraeli),
revived the Imperial spirit in
England, 78, 79, 80, 243; mis-
interpreted by Lord Rosebery,
79; speech on Toryism, 1872,
80; reconstructed his party, 1874,
82; his theories of Parliamentary
reform, 179; embarrassed by
Lord Carnarvon's resignation,
180; difficulties in the Zulu War,
183; Gladstone's opposition to,

233, 234, 246, 247; commercial
depression under his Govern-
ment, 235; his manifesto, 1880,
236; his policy reversed, 224,
236; his fall anticipated in the
Transvaal, 239; his death, 272;
Lord Derby's desertion of, 302
Bebington, Baron Marschall von,
on Kaiser's telegram, 1896, 428
Bechuanaland, Boer outrages in,
133, 314-316; Boer raid into,
275, 311, 312, 313, 313 n., 322;
desired by Cape Colony, 290,
317, 318, 323, 324, 359; coveted
by the Transvaal, 290 n., 323, 324;
English resident in, 310; Sir
Charles Warren's expedition to,
319, 320, 324; ultimate destina-
tion of, 323; English interest in,
345-347; a strip of ceded to
the Chartered Company, 376 ;
police and Jameson Raid, 383,
384, 390, 424, 686 n.
Beit, Mr., 410, 424

Bell's, Mr. F. W., South African
Conspiracy,' 499 n., 500, 539
Bergenaar, Mr. Jan, on 'slimness,'
296, 454

Bethell, Mr., murdered by Boers,
295, 295 n., 296, 296 n., 316,
319
Bezuidenhout, Frederick, origin of
Slagter's Nek myth, 4 ; his char-
acter, 4, 21; injustice to a Hot-
tentot servant, 5; defied the
authorities, 5; his death, 6; mis-
representation of his story, 17,
18, 20, 21

Bezuidendout, Jan, swore to avenge
his brother, 7; fights the author-
ities, 8, 9; his death, 9, 18; his
wife's courage, 9; a rhapsody
over, 21, 22

Bezuidenhout, Piet, cause of Boer
war, 1881, 24, 249

Bible influence in the Transvaal,
108, 134

Bigelow, Mr. Poultney, on Trans-
vaal law against treason, 408, 409
Bismarck, Kruger the South
African, 454-457
Blake, Mr., 413

Bleloch, Mr., "The New South
Africa,' on value of gold in the
Rand, 469; on capitalists in the
Transvaal, 564, 566

Bloemhof, meeting to settle the dia-
mond-fields question at, 87
Bloemfontein, 94, 113, 192, 335;
papers found in, xxvii, 491;
railway opened at, 336, 336 n.;
meeting on railway, 573
Bloemfontein Conference, 1899,
530, 600, 605, 624-629, 661-664,
689, 690; Boer views of the, 501,
606; suggested by Steyn, 600,
629; correspondence leading to
the, 614-617; object of the, 616,
669; claims advanced by Kruger
at the, 625; closed, 629, 669;
draft of negotiations from memo-
randa, 629 640; criticism of Lord
Milner at the, 641, 642; Milner
offered a compromise at, 643;
Kruger's attitude at, 663, 664;
Milner's appeal to Kruger at the,
724, 725

Bloemfontein Express, 276, 492
Boer, histories published in fa-
vour of, xxvi, 2; Republic in
Natal, 15; treatment of the
natives, 28, 29, 43, 47, 48, 51, 135-
139,716; fallacies about the sale
of the Cape, 34; rebellions at
Graaf Reinet, 36; reading of the
Sand River Convention, 70; re-
sistance to British trade, 72; un-
successful administration, 1858,
77; in the diamond-fields, 88, 89;
Transvaal- and the annexation,
105; and Zulus, 1840, 110, 112,
216; passion for removal, 126,
127; encroachments upon native
territory, 132, 133, 140, 141; war
with Sikukuni, 141; courage, 141,
142; demoralization before the
annexation, 144-146; appeal to
foreign Powers for protection,
150; families in the Transvaal,
164; war, 1899, might have been
averted had Frere been supported
at home, 187; meaning of word
'Afrikander,' 196; misconception
of right of free meetings and
speech, 207, 208; of the old
school uncertain of English pro-
tection, 216, 217, 221; Sir Bartle
Frere's visit to camp, 218;
loyalists opposed to retrocession
of the Transvaal, 221; home
politics watched by the, 239;
contempt for Gladstone, 241, 242,

247; letters between Mr. Court-
ney and the, 242; Petition of
Rights, 1881, ix, 256, 257; pro-
clamation re annexation of the
Transvaal, 246 n.; War, 1880-
1881, 254, 255, 259 n., 260-263,
266, 277; proclamation to the
Orange Free State, 258; raids
into neighbouring States, 258,
275, 309, 313-316, 321, 322, 435;
feeling towards the English, 292,
295, 300, 423 n., 424 n.; 'slim-
ness,' 297, 508; love of solitude
and freedom, 439, 718, 719;
underrated the English army and
navy, 470; ultimatum to England,
542; commando ready to seize
Laing's Nek, August, 1899, 678;
foreigners in the - Army, 689;
love of anarchy in the Greek sense,
715, 716; question of disarming
the, 718

-

Boeschoten, Mr. C. van, on Trans-
vaal claim to exclude aliens, 532,
533

Bok, Mr., 158, 163, 192, 307
Boomplatz, Battle of, 67
Booy, Hottentot, cause of Slagter's
Nek myth, 4, 5

Borckenhagen, Carl, xxvii, xxviii,
XXX, 276, 281, 335, 362, 364, 513,
521, 687; his offer to Rhodes,
336; Bismarck's agent, 471; re-
sponsible for present war, 491,
492; appeal to the Afrikanders,
514
Boshoff, J. N., President of Orange
Free State, 15, 20, 321

Botha, Mr. Paul, 9, 48, 321 n., 322 n.
Botha, General, and Lord Kitchener
on the natives, 48, 718
Bothma, Abraham, 9, 10
Bothma, Stephanus, 7, 9, 10
Bourbon, Isle of, 35

Boyle, Mr. Frederick, on the dia-
mond-fields, 88

Brand, Sir John, President of

Orange Free State, 86, 210,
262, 400; compensated for the
diamond-fields by England, 87,
89-91, 128; correspondence with
Lord Carnarvon respecting the
diamond-fields, 90-92; a capable
statesman, 107, 113, 127; early
history of, 128; aids England in
settling Transvaal grievances,

230; at first refused to help the
Transvaal, 1881, 258, 259; caused
the peace after Majuba by
threatening to join the Boers,
268, 269; his death, 276; an
Afrikander loyal to England, 292,
293; letter to the Afrikander
Bond, 293, 294; not averse to
federation, 339

Breda, Mr. Michael von, 51
Britain, Great, penal law in the last
century, 11; in South Africa and
the colonies, rule of, 23, 174;
policy affected by socialistic ideas,
27; honesty in acquisition of
territory, 38; price of the slave
emancipation by, 39; Manches-
ter School opposed to the Empire
of, 68; Gladstone's reply to the
loyal subjects of, 271, 272; de-
serts the loyalists, 337; supremacy
of threatened in South Africa,
510, 511, 597, 686; unprepared
for the war, 1899, 542; supported
by Milner and Chamberlain, 720,

724

British South African Chartered
Company, 352, 354, 355, 466
Bronkhorst Spruit, 277
Broom-sellers, fable of the, 325
Bryce, Mr. James, on Slagter's
Nek, 18; review of the situation,
December, 1895, 326 n., 327 n.
Buffon, 493, 494 n.
Bulwer, Sir Henry, Governor of
Natal, 231; on Cetewayo, 182;
on Frere's policy, 183
Burger, Mr. Schalk, 412, 542
Burgers, Thomas François, Presi-
dent of the Transvaal, 118, 223;
treating for alliance with native
tribes, 94; his education, 107,
129, 130; Die Patriot's animosity
to, 108; Kruger's treachery to, 108,
109; his work in the Transvaal
131, 162; a conspiracy against,
132; war against Sikukuni, 141-
143, 203; his indictment of the
Volksraad, 144-146; his account
of a meeting with Sir T. Shep-
stone, 146, 148; admission of the
reasons for annexation of the
Transvaal, 151, 156, 157, 223;
protests against annexation from,
148, 149, 151, 154; his account
of the annexation, 152; pension

from England on account of loss
of office, 152 n.; amendments to
questions on the annexation, 154-
156; animosity of the Dutch
Reformed Church towards, 158;
on Kruger's mission to London,
160; his appeal to the Afrikan-
ders, 1874, 194
Burghersdorp, treasonable meeting
at, 501-503
Burke, 240

Butler, Sir William, misrepresenta-
tion of Slagter's Nek rebellion,
19, 20; conduct at the Cape,
589; on Sir G. Colley, 589; sym-
pathy with the Boers, 590, 688;
on retrocession of the Transvaal,
590, 591

Buttery, Mr. J. A., sub-editor
Standard and Diggers' News, on
Kruger's maimed thumb, 484 ;
'Why Kruger made War,' 505,
609; on funds for the Afrikander
Bond, 505

Cairns, Lord, 268 n., 273
Camel, fable of the, 294, 295, 341 m.
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry,
538 n.

Canada, Dominion of, 97; Free
Trade proposed with, 65, 69; the
Dominion established, 98, 99, 106,
107, 111, 112, 121; autonomy in,
173, 174; population of, 175, 176;
anglicized, 283; freedom in, 349,
352; House of Commons resolu-
tion on South African negotia-
tions, July, 1899, 658; affected
by the Venezuelan question, 710,
711

Cape Colony sold to England by
the King of Holland, 1814, 3, 31,
34, 35, 37, 38, 257, 279; first
British occupation of, 1795, 3, 5,
9, 11, 27, 31-33, 121, 122; cruelty
of Dutch laws in, 1795, 11;
slavery in, 29-31, 42-44, 51, 52;
slave-owners' grievances, 53;
Dutch could not believe that
England would retain, 1797,
31-34; evacuated by the English,
1803, 36, 37; missionary work
in, 39-41; Kaffir rebellion in,
1834, 55, 56; British Government
in, 73, 75, 77, 78, 257; self-
government in, 84, 85, 93, 99,