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Ladysmith

CHAPTER X
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Our suspicions of yesterday were true, and Pepworth Hill knows him no more.
He now reigns on Little Bulwan, sometimes called Gun Hill, below Lombard's Kop.

His range is nearer, he can even reach the Manchesters' sangars with effect, and he is far the most formidable of the guns that torment us.
[Illustration: HOSPITAL IN TOWN HALL AFTER A SHELL] All day the bombardment was severe, as this siege goes.

I did not count the shells thrown at us, but certainly there cannot have been less than 250.

They were thrown into all parts of the town and forts.

No one felt secure, except the cave-dwellers.


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