One could say little more than that we are doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

But the sun did not come out all day, and not a single word got through.
In the afternoon I rode out to Waggon Hill, south-west of our position, to call upon the two howitzers.

They are heavy squat guns about twenty years old, their shells being marked 1880, though they are said in reality to date from 1869.

They were brought up from Port Elizabeth where the Volunteers used them, and certainly they have done fine service here.

Concealed in the hollow of a hill, they are invisible to the enemy, and after many trials have now exactly got the range of the great 6 in.