Several companies of regulars were on their way from Pietersdorp, but they did not arrive till the next day.

When they came they went to the Wolkberg to join the artillery.

Along the Berg at strategic points were pickets of police with native trackers, and at Blaauwildebeestefontein there was a strong force with two field guns, for there was some fear of a second Kaffir army marching by that place to Inanda's Kraal.

At Wesselsburg out on the plain there was a biggish police patrol, and a system of small patrols along the road, with a fair number of Basuto scouts.

But the road was picketed, not held; for Arcoll's patrols were only a branch of his Intelligence Department.