Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I haere ia ki te United States i te tau 1904 me te General Piet Cronjé (o
Ko te rongonui o te Pakanga o Paardeberg) ki te whai waahi ki te Whakaaturanga Hokona o Louisiana (St. Louis, Missouri) me te "Boer War Circus" e kiia nei ko nga whakaaturanga o nga whakaaturanga mai i te Pakanga Boer. I muri i tana wehenga mai i te whakaaturanga, ka noho ia ki te US. I whakarerea e ia tana wahine, a Lenie (née Els), kaore i tino hiahia ki te wehe atu i Awherika ki te Tonga, i te wa i kii ai nga purongo kei te whakaipoipo ia ki a May Belfort. I muri mai ka marenatia ia ki tētahi wahine nō Amerika, ki a Myrtle Dickerson. I rahua ngā whakamātau ki te whakatū i tētahi kāinga Boer ki te raki o Mehiko.