RAIDERS AND REBELS IN SOUTH AFRICA

First edition with 209 pages, frontispiece, 13 plates, pictorial brown cloth gilt, a good copy.

Two days after the Jameson Raid, Professor Liebman advertised in the Cape Times for nurses and ambulance men to proceed with him to Johannesburg, to assist in hospital work in connection with the wounded raiders and burghers. The author volunteered and her services were accepted, and the party, numbering eight in all, left the same day for the Transvaal. They were not, at first, allowed to proceed to Johannesburg, but on their arrival at Pretoria were granted a safe conduct, and after some delay reached the temporary hospital at Krugersdorp. Here they found forty cases, five of whom died within a week after their coming. The hospital was guarded night and day by the Boers, most of the patients being prisoners. The majority of them, however, soon became convalescent, and were sent under escort to Durban, the Professor and Mrs. Green returning to Cape Town in about a week. The Professor, a few weeks later, organised another ambulance to go to Rhodesia, then in the throes of the Matabele rebellion : the author accompanied the party, and she gives an interesting description of the hostilities, with some information respecting the affairs of the country at this period. (Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography vol.1 page 632)