At once all the guns commanding that bit of grassy plain opened on them--"Faith," "Hope," and "Charity"-- from Telegraph Hill, the guns on Surprise Hill, and Thornhill Kopje, and the two guns now on Bluebank Ridge.

Two horses were killed, and the party, not being numerous enough for their task, came galloping back singly.

Meantime the Boers, with their usual resource, had invented a new method of calling the cattle home by planting shells just behind them.

The whole enterprise was admirably planned and carried out.

We only succeeded in saving thirty or forty out of the drove.