But I did not like them any better when I saw our wounded in the dust-storm to-day, and remembered why they were there.
In the afternoon a white woman was killed by a shell as she was washing clothes in the river.

She is the first woman actually killed, though others have died from premature child birth.

I don't know which gun killed her, but parts of the town and river hitherto safe were to-day exposed to fire from the 6 in.

gun which was removed from Middle Hill a few days ago, and is now set up on Thornhill's farm, due west of the town.

It commands a very wide district--the old camp, the Long Valley which the Maritzburg road crosses, the Great Plain behind Bluebank, and most of our western positions.