In the morning the Boers would send out spies, and then the rest would come with a rush.
I would surround them, and they would have to fight my men on equal terms, in the open.

There wouldn't be any Amajuba results.
-- [Just as I am finishing this book an unfortunate dispute has sprung up between Dr.Jameson and his officers, on the one hand, and Colonel Rhodes on the other, concerning the wording of a note which Colonel Rhodes sent from Johannesburg by a cyclist to Jameson just before hostilities began on the memorable New Year's Day.

Some of the fragments of this note were found on the battlefield after the fight, and these have been pieced together; the dispute is as to what words the lacking fragments contained.

Jameson says the note promised him a reinforcement of 300 men from Johannesburg.

Colonel Rhodes denies this, and says he merely promised to send out "some" men "to meet you."] [It seems a pity that these friends should fall out over so little a thing.