Their prejudices against him were not to be shaken.

In reality others about Rhodes were far more dangerous than Jameson could ever have proved on the question of a South African settlement in which the rights of the Dutch elements in the Cape and Orange Free State would be respected and considered.
[D] Dr.Jameson died November 26th, 1917.
[Illustration: THE RT.HON.SIR LEANDER STARR JAMESON] Whatever might have been his faults, Doctor Jameson was neither a rogue nor a fool.

For Rhodes he had a sincere affection that made him keenly alive to the dangers that might threaten the latter, and anxious to avert them.

But during those eventful months of the war the influence of the Doctor also had been weakened by the peculiar circumstances which had arisen in consequence of the length of the Boer resistance.

Before the war broke out it had been generally supposed that three months would see the end of the Transvaal Republic, and Rhodes himself, more often than I care to remember, had prophesied that a few weeks would be the utmost that the struggle could last.