Biographical entries
A reader's introduction
Book I
[1] Leaving home
The first ten days
Las Palmas
Monrovia
Nifu
Mossamdes
Port Alexander
Swakopmund
The journey to Karibib
Karibib
By oxcart from Karibib to Okombahe
[2] Okombahe
Something about the natives of the colony
The activities of the missionaries in the protectorate
Our first abode
Worries of a housewife
Building our home
Future plans and disappointments
Cattle raising
Gui-Gams
Cultivating a garden
Experiences and observations
Spitzkoppies
[3] Insurrection
Foreboding weather
The insurrection begins
A dangerous ride
In the fortress
Under the protection of the Franke Company
In the barracks at Omaruru
My return to Germany
Book II
A note to my readers
[1] The new South West
My return to South West Africa
Our idealic life in Klein-Windhuk
[2] How I experienced the First World War
The impending storm
The future is foreshadowed in everyday events
The people of the colony prepare themselves
Mobilization
South Africa begins hostilities
Treachery at Naulila
Our commander dies
A punitive expedition to Naulila
The Baster War
The Germans must be cleared out
General Botha occupies Windhuk
An honorable surrender
Living under martial law
[3] South West becomes a League of Nations mandate
Dissolution?
Expulsions
The influenza epidemic of 1918
Changes
New unrest
The house on the mountain
Life under mandate rule
Our German schools
My sons
Hunting in the African bush and a return to our home in Okombahe
From the Brandberg to Franzfontein
Korichaams
Etoscha and the Waterberg
1934 : the year of torrential rains
Of diamonds, gold, and other treasures
A concluding and final word
Postscript.