WITH STEYN AND DE WET

173 pages, red cloth gilt, worn at top and bottom of spine, corners bumped, library stamps on the front endpapers.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume 2 page 166: The author asserts that the war will never be over in the hearts of the Boers, who, he maintains, have been embittered by the farm-burnings, and by the way the system of the concentration camps has been carried out. He affords information respecting many smart telegraphic tricks by means of which the British plans became known to the enemy - resulting, in many cases, in grave disasters to their troops, and he states that at the time of Colonel Spragg's misfortune at Lindley " most of the British telegrams passed through our hands before reaching their destination." Pienaar fled to Delagoa Bay after the battle of Machadorp, but he was not allowed to recross the frontier, and was finally deported with other Boer refugees to the convent of Thomar in Portugal.