Chapter LXVI. Jameson over the Border—His
Defeat and Capture—Sent to England for
Trial—Arrest of Citizens by the Boers—Commuted
sentences—Final Release of all but Two—Interesting
Days for a Stranger—Hard to Understand
Either Side—What the Reformers Expected
to Accomplish—How They Proposed to do it—Testimonies
a Year Later—A “Woman’s Part”—The
Truth of the South African Situation—“Jameson’s
Ride”—A Poem
Chapter LXVIL
Jameson’s Raid—The Reform Committee’s
Difficult Task—Possible Plans
—Advice that Jameson Ought to Have—The
War of 1881 and its Lessons
—Statistics of Losses of the Combatants—Jameson’s
Battles—Losses on Both
Sides—The Military Errors—How
the Warfare Should Have Been Carried on
to Be Successful
Chapter LXVIII.
Judicious Mr. Rhodes—What South Africa
Consists of—Johannesburg—The
Gold Mines—The Heaven of American Engineers—What
the Author Knows about
Mining—Description of the Boer—What
Should be Expected of Him—What Was
A Dizzy Jump for Rhodes—Taxes—Rhodesian
Method of Reducing Native
Population—Journeying in Cape Colony—The
Cars—The Country—The
Weather—Tamed Blacks—Familiar
Figures in King William’s Town—Boer
Dress—Boer Country Life—Sleeping
Accommodations—The Reformers in Boer
Prison—Torturing a Black Prisoner
Chapter LXIX. An Absorbing Novelty—The
Kimberley Diamond Mines—Discovery of Diamonds
—The Wronged Stranger—Where the
Gems Are—A Judicious Change of Boundary—Modern
Machinery and Appliances—Thrilling Excitement
in Finding a Diamond—Testing a Diamond—Fences—Deep
Mining by Natives in the Compound—Stealing—Reward
for the Biggest Diamond—A Fortune in Wine—The
Great Diamond—Office of the De Beer Co.—Sorting
the Gems —Cape Town—The Most
Imposing Man in British Provinces—Various
Reasons for his Supremacy—How He Makes
Friends
Conclusion.
Table Rock—Table Bay—The Castle—Government
and Parliament—The Club
—Dutch Mansions and their Hospitality—Dr.
John Barry and his Doings—On
the Ship Norman—Madeira—Arrived
in Southampton
A man may have no bad habits and have worse.
—Pudd’nhead
Wilson’s New Calendar.
The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the
world was Paris, where we had been living a year or
two.
We sailed for America, and there made certain preparations.
This took but little time. Two members of my
family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle.
The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel.
Humor is out of place in a dictionary.
We started westward from New York in midsummer, with
Major Pond to manage the platform-business as far
as the Pacific. It was warm work, all the way,
and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky,
for in Oregon and Columbia the forest fires were raging.
We had an added week of smoke at the seaboard, where
we were obliged awhile for our ship. She had
been getting herself ashore in the smoke, and she
had to be docked and repaired.
