nothing.

Does not their request seem outrageous?

The Uitlanders kept up their demands for a share in the government, and
the Boers steadily refused them.

Then the population of Johannesburg began to arm itself, and the Boers
quietly watched them.

At last, word was sent to Dr. Jameson from the leading Uitlanders in
Johannesburg that the Boers were up in arms, and that the people of
Johannesburg were in danger of their lives.

They begged Dr. Jameson to come to their aid, in the name of humanity.

Dr. Jameson did not send this appeal on to his superiors, and wait for
orders, as he should have done, but thinking that he was doing a glorious
deed, he gathered a little force of eight hundred men together, and
cutting down the telegraph wires behind him, so that no orders could reach
him and stop him, he dashed into the Transvaal to the relief of
Johannesburg.

Almost within sight of Johannesburg he was met by the Boers, under their
leader, General Joubert.

Here a dastardly thing happened.

The Uitlanders, who had sent for this brave but foolish man, did not raise
a finger to help him, but stayed like cowards within the walls of their