Chapter II: Part 1: On the Trek

WITH ROBERTS.
The Occupation of Johannesburg.
Pretoria Taken.
Diamond Hill and After.
Back to Pretoria.
Entertaining a Guest.
The Mails Arrive.
The Nitral's Nek Disaster.

WITH MAHON.
A General Advance to Balmoral and Back.
To Rustenburg.
Ambushed.
Heavy Work for the Recording Angel.
Relief of Eland's River Garrison. Join in the great De Wet hunt.
After De Wet.
The Yeoman, the Argentine and the Farrier-Sergeant.
Commandeering by Order.

WITH CLEMENTS.
Cattle Lifting.
Delarey gives us a Field Day.
Burnt to Death.
The Infection of Spring again.
Death of Lieutenant Stanley.
His Burial.
Promoted to Full Corporal.
Petty Annoyances--The Nigger.
A Wet Night.
The Great Egg Trick.
Our Friend "Nobby."
"The Roughs" leave us for Pretoria.
The breaking up of the Composite Squadron.
Life on a Kopje.
Death and Burial of Captain Hodge.
Camp Life at Krugersdorp.
Lady Snipers at Work.
Treatment of the Sick.
Veldt Church Service.
Comradeship.

IN HOSPITAL.
The Story of Nooitgedacht.
Two Field Hospitals--A Contrast.
Christmas in Hospital.
The Career of an Untruth.
The Sisters' Albums.
"Long live the King!"
The Irish Fusilier's Ambition.
"War without End."
Invitations--and a Concert.
Our Orderly's Blighted Heart.
Southward Ho!
R.A.M.C. Experiences and Impressions.
The Mythical and Real Officer.
The R.A.M.C. Sergeant-Major, and other annoyances.
At the Base.
Another Album!!
Reasons.
Home.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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"A Hot Time!" 2
"A Camp Sing-Song" 7
"The Great Small Game Quest(ion)" 9
"The Mealie and Oat Fatigue" 23
"Stable Guard" 31
"A Terrible Reckoning" 44
"Some of the Pomp and Circumstance of Glorious War" 52
"A New Rig-out" 58
"Oliver Twist on the Veldt" 65
"Hate" 68
"Mails Up" 87
"I'kona" 89
"Nobby" 94
"Consolation" 112
"On Pass" 114
"A Peep at Our Domestic Life" 118
"Hymns and their Singers" 129
"A Friendly Boer Family" 141
"Well, it's the best Oi can do for yez" 144
"Sick" and "Who said C.I.V.'s?" 148
"Got His Ticket" 153
"The Thoughtless Sister" 156
"God Save the King" 159
"Tommy's Spittoon" 171