’John Willoughby,—­I acknowledge your note, and this serves as reply, that if you guarantee the payment of the expenses which you have occasioned the South African Republic and surrender your flag together with your weapons I will spare the life of you and yours.  Please send reply within thirty minutes.’

When this reply was written by me neither Malan nor Potgieter were present.  Thereupon he answered that he accepted the terms, and surrendered himself fully with all his arms into my hands.  After receiving Willoughby’s answer, I rode to Jameson’s troops in order to meet the other commandants, in accordance with a note sent by Commandant Potgieter to the enemy.  I went with Field-Cornets Maartens and Van Vuuren to Jameson’s troops, and met Jameson.  When I met him I gave him to clearly understand our agreement namely that he must plainly understand that the last clause was that I guaranteed his life and that of his men until I had handed him over to General Joubert.  Thereupon I asked him if he was willing to lay down his flag and his arms, to which he replied, ’I have no flag; I am willing to lay down my arms.’  Thereupon I asked him if he could declare upon oath that he had no flag, whereupon he declared under oath that he had no flag.  Then Commandant Malan arrived, and then the three commanding officers, Malan, Potgieter and I, were present on the spot.

Before I began speaking to Malan, Jameson called Willoughby to be present.  Thereupon Malan and I spoke together about the surrender of Jameson.  Whereupon Malan said, ’We can’t decide anything here.  Jameson must surrender unconditionally, and he must be plainly given to understand that we cannot guarantee his life any longer than till we have handed him over to General Joubert.’  I fully agreed with Malan, and the interpreter Adendorff was then instructed by the three commandants jointly to convey plainly in English to Jameson what the three commandants had agreed upon.  After this had been done, Jameson bowed, took his hat off, and said in English that he agreed to the terms.  Thereupon he issued orders to Willoughby to command the subordinate officers to lay down their arms.  Then the arms were laid down.  Later on, after the arms had been laid down, Commandant Trichardt arrived with orders from the Commandant-General, and his terms were the same as those we had already laid down.

  P.A.  CRONJE.

Sworn before me on this 7th day of March, 1896.

H. J. COSTER,
State Attorney and Ex-officio J.P.

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We, the undersigned, Jan.  Thos.  Maartens, Field-Cornet of the Ward Gatsrand, District Potchefstroom, and Daniel Johannes Jansen van Vuuren, Assistant Field-Cornet of the Ward Bovenschoonspruit, declare under oath that we were present at everything stated in the foregoing sworn declaration of Commandant P.A.  Cronje, and that that declaration is correct and in accordance with the truth.