To call the Boer force an army was to add unwarranted elasticity to the word, for it had but one quality in common with such armed forces as Americans or Europeans are accustomed to call by that name.

The Boer army fought with guns and gunpowder, but it had no discipline, no drills, no forms, no standards, and not even a roll-call.

It was an enlarged edition of the hunting parties which a quarter-century ago went into the Zoutpansberg in search of game--it was a massive aggregation of lion-hunters..