These guns of Lambton's, supplemented by two old-fashioned 6.3 howitzers manned by survivors from No.

10 Mountain Battery, did all that was possible to keep down the fire of the heavy Boer guns.

If they could not save, they could at least hit back, and punishment is not so bad to bear when one is giving as well as receiving.
By the end of the first week of November the Boers had established their circle of fire.

On the east of the town, broken by the loops of the Klip River, is a broad green plain, some miles in extent, which furnished grazing ground for the horses and cattle of the besieged.

Beyond it rises into a long flat-topped hill the famous Bulwana, upon which lay one great Creusot and several smaller guns.