2-361-655 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Oom Paul Consulting the Time Table', 1900. Satirical cartoon showing Boer leader Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic (Transvaal), reading one of a series of railway timetables with his belongings packed alongside him. Forced to leave Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, by the advance of the British Army, Kruger retreated to Macahadodorp in the Eastern Transvaal, where he lived in his railway carriage. In October 1900 he left South Africa for exile aboard a Dutch warship. A print from Black and White Budget Vol III, WJP Monckton, London, June 16th 1900.