The surgeon who treated them has left it on record that the average number of wounds was five per man.

At Laing's Nek an inferior force of British endeavoured to rush a hill which was held by Boer riflemen.

Half of our men were killed and wounded.

Ingogo may be called a drawn battle, though our loss was more heavy than that of the enemy.

Finally came the defeat of Majuba Hill, where four hundred infantry upon a mountain were defeated and driven off by a swarm of sharpshooters who advanced under the cover of boulders.