CHAPTER XIV
Week ending 20th January, 1900

CHAPTER XV
Week ending 27th January, 1900

CHAPTER XVI
Week ending 3rd February, 1900

CHAPTER XVII
Week ending 10th February, 1900

CHAPTER XVIII
Week ending 17th February, 1900




INTRODUCTION


The famous Ultimatum had gone forth to the world. War had come at last.
We, in Kimberley, were in for it--though happily unconscious of our
destiny until it was revealed by the gradations of time. Nothing awful
was anticipated. The future was veiled. The knowledge of what was to
come was brought home to us by a gradual process that kept us
permanently sane. Dull Kimberley was to be enlivened in a manner that
made us wish it were dull again. We felt it from the first--the sense of
imprisonment--the deprivation of liberty. But that was all, we