Mrs.Keeley, however, knew her friends well, and was quite capable of dealing with them, so they probably spent an unprofitable day.
On another occasion an English farmer named Leipner looked in, and gave us some information about Vryburg.

This town was absolutely undefended, and was occupied by the Boers without a shot being fired.

The ceremony of the hoisting of the _Vierkleur_[27] had been attended by the whole countryside, and had taken place with much psalm-singing and praying, interlarded with bragging and boasting.

He told me also that some of the rumours current in the town, and firmly credited, reported that Oom Paul had annexed Bechuanaland, that he was then about to take Cape Colony, after which he would allow no troops to land, and the "Roineks" would have been pushed into the sea.

His next step would be to take England.
Mr.Leipner assured me the more ignorant Boers had not an idea where England was situated, nor did they know that a great ocean rolled between it and this continent.