CHAPTER XIII

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A Surrendered Boer General--Two Unworthy Predikants--Two Notable Advocates of Clemency--Mines without Men, and Men without Meat--Much Fat in the Fire--More Fat and Mightier Flames--A Welcome Lift by the Way--"Rags and Tatters, get ye gone!"--Destruction and still more Destruction--At Koomati Poort--Two Notable Fugitives--The Propaganda of the Africander Bond--Ex-President Steyn--Paul Botha's opinion of this Ex-President.