"The captain saw him fall." Crossing the open valley in front I came to the long ridge called Observation Hill.

There the rifle fire hardly ever ceases.

It is held by three companies of the K.R.R.and the 5th Lancers dismounted.

It looks out over the long valley of Bell's Spruit; that scene of the great disaster where we lost our battalions, being less than three miles away at the foot of the rugged mountain beyond--Surprise Hill.

Close in front is one of the two farms called Hyde's, and there the Boers find shelter at nights and in rain.