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Smuts withdrew to the N.W. and laid siege to Ookiep, which was relieved on May 3 by an expedition sent from Capetown through Port Nolloth; Smuts having in the meantime retired in order to attend the Peace Conference. He had done his best to carry out the instructions given to him by the Boer Council of War held in June, 1901, to foment a general insurrection in the Cape Colony, but he had failed.
Fouche gave himself up at Cradock on June 2nd. The last incident of this scattered, scrambling, unsatisfactory campaign in the Cape peninsula was the raid made by Smuts, the Transvaal leader, into the Port Nolloth district of Namaqualand, best known for its copper mines. A small railroad has been constructed from the coast at this point, the terminus being the township of Ookiep.
The length of the line is about seventy miles. It is difficult to imagine what the Boers expected to gain in this remote corner of the seat of war, unless they had conceived the idea that they might actually obtain possession of Port Nolloth itself, and so restore the communications with their sympathisers and allies.
Immediately afterwards came the news of the negotiations for peace, and the Boer general presented himself at Port Nolloth, whence he was conveyed by ship to Cape Town, and so north again to take part in the deliberations of his fellow-countrymen. Throughout the war he had played a manly and honourable part.
Leave Tete and proceed down the River Pass the Stockade of Bonga Gorge of Lupata "Spine of the World" Width of River Islands War Drum at Shiramba Canoe Navigation Reach Senna Its ruinous State Landeens levy Fines upon the Inhabitants Cowardice of native Militia State of the Revenue No direct Trade with Portugal Attempts to revive the Trade of Eastern Africa Country round Senna Gorongozo, a Jesuit Station Manica, the best Gold Region in Eastern Africa Boat-building at Senna Our Departure Capture of a Rebel Stockade Plants Alfacinya and Njefu at the Confluence of the Shire Landeen Opinion of the Whites Mazaro, the point reached by Captain Parker His Opinion respecting the Navigation of the River from this to the Ocean Lieutenant Hoskins' Remarks on the same subject Fever, its Effects Kindly received into the House of Colonel Nunes at Kilimane Forethought of Captain Nolloth and Dr.
Once more, at the end of the war as at the beginning of it, there was shown the impotence of the Dutch riflemen against a British defence. A relief column, under Colonel Cooper, was quickly organised at Port Nolloth, and advanced along the railway line, forcing Smuts to raise the siege in the first week of May.
To the south, towards Port Nolloth, stretches seventy-odd miles of desolate, waterless sand-scrub; eastward lie vast expanses of similarly dreary, featureless, undulating scrub, beyond which rise the unknown and mysterious mountains of the Richtersfeld and hundreds of miles of uninhabited country; westward is the wide lonely ocean; and to the north, across the Orange River, lie the dreaded sand-dunes of German South-West Africa.
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