The Boer guns fired now and then, but did little damage.

At night we placed two howitzers on a nek in Waggon Hill, where the 60th have a post south-west of the town.
_November 29, 1899._ A few more Kaffirs came through from Estcourt, but brought no later news.

Their report of the fighting on the Mooi River was: "The English burnt the Dutch like paraffin.

The Dutch have their ears down." Did I not say that Zulu was the future language of opera?
Riding past the unfinished hospital I saw a private of the 18th Hussars cut down by a shell splinter--the only casualty to-day resulting from several hundred pounds' worth of ammunition.

The two greatest events were, first, the attempt of our two old howitzers on Waggon Hill to silence the 6 in.