Chapter I: Front Matter

THE AFRICANDERS

A CENTURY OF
DUTCH-ENGLISH FEUD
IN SOUTH AFRICA

BY
LE ROY HOOKER,
AUTHOR OF
“Enoch, the Philistine,” “Baldoon,” etc.

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK:
RAND, McNALLY & CO., PUBLISHERS.
MDCCCC.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE.

I The Dutch at the Cape (1652–1795), 11 II First Contact of Africander and Briton in Diplomacy (1795), 26 III First Contact of Africander and Briton in War (1795), 46 IV The Africanders’ First Trek to the North (1806–1838), 68 V Second Contact of Africander and Briton—In Natal, 87 VI Second Contact of Africander and Briton—North of the Orange River, 98 VII The Africanders’ Second Trek to the North, 114 VIII The Independent Africander and Slavery, 123 IX Third Contact of Africander and Briton—In the Orange Free State, 135 X Third Contact of Africander and Briton—In the Transvaal, 148 XI The Africanders’ First War of Independence, 165 XII The Africander Republics and British Policy, 178 XIII Causes of the Africanders’ Second War of Independence, 188 XIV Causes of the Africanders’ Second War of Independence— Continued, 207 XV Causes of the Africanders’ Second War of Independence— Continued, 221 XVI Causes of the Africanders’ Second War of Independence— Concluded, 241 XVII The Country of the Africanders, 261

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, Frontispiece
President Kruger, Facing page 48
Lighthouse, Durban, 72
President Steyn, Orange Free State, 88
The Vaal River, 96
Doctor Jameson, 112
Majuba Hill, 120
General Joubert, 136
Pietermaritzburg, 152
Cecil J. Rhodes, 168
Government Building, Pretoria, 176
Joseph Chamberlain, 192
Bloemfontein, 208
General Cronje, 224
Pritchard Street, Johannesburg, 240
Cattle on the Vaal River, 264