One last rush was made, and failed, and then the Staats Artillery came up on the left flank, and the game was up." Jameson hoisted a white flag and surrendered.
There is a story, which may not be true, about an ignorant Boer farmer there who thought that this white flag was the national flag of England.
He had been at Bronkhorst, and Laing's Nek, and Ingogo and Amajuba, and supposed that the English did not run up their flag excepting at the end of a fight.
The following is (as I understand it) Mr.Garrett's estimate of Jameson's total loss in killed and wounded for the two days: "When they gave in they were minus some 20 per cent.

of combatants.
There were 76 casualties.

There were 30 men hurt or sick in the wagons.
There were 27 killed on the spot or mortally wounded." Total, 133, out of the original 530.

It is just 25 per cent .-- [However, I judge that the total was really 150; for the number of wounded carried to Krugersdorp hospital was 53; not 30, as Mr.Garrett reports it.

The lady whose guest I was in Krugerdorp gave me the figures.