THROUGH SHOT AND FLAME

THE ADVENTURES AND EXPERIENCES OF J. D. KESTELL CHAPLAIN TO PRESIDENT STEYN AND GENERAL CHRISTIAN DE WET

METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON 1903

Colonial Library

TO

MY WIFE

WHO WAS ONE OF THE THOUSANDS WHO ENDURED IN THE GREAT STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM, I DEDICATE THIS BOOK

AND

WITH HER I COMMEMORATE HERE THE FIDELITY AND PATRIOTISM OF HIM WHO WAS MY COMRADE IN THE FIELD, AND WHO DIED IN THE SPRINGTIDE OF HIS LIFE, A PRISONER OF WAR, AT LADYSMITH, NATAL

Our Son, CHARLES KESTELL