Another cottage was wrecked.

The heat was intense, but the sun so splendid that I have hopes my heliograph message got through at last.

None have gone yet, but I took up my sixth version in faith to the signal station near the Convent.

On inquiry about Captain Paley I found he had been sent down to Intombi Camp with other serious cases, but the doctors think he has a chance.Lieut.Bond, who has a similar wound, went with him.Lieut.Fergusson, who died, had four bad wounds, three from bullets and one from a small shell of the automatic "pom-pom," which shattered his thigh.

The rest of the day was a delirium of fever till the evening, when the wind suddenly changed to east, and it became cool and then bitterly cold.