The latter did not fire at all to-day, and I saw the Boers standing about it in groups evidently excited and disturbed.
The bombardment continued much as usual in other parts, and I spent the afternoon with the 69th Battery on Leicester Post, watching Major Wing reply to the new howitzer on Surprise Hill.

Rain fell heavily at times, and the Boers never like firing in the wet.
The day was chiefly marked by Colonel Stoneman's visit to Intombi Camp to inquire into the reported scandals.

He thinks that the worst of the corruption and swindling is already over, being killed by the very scandal.

But he found a general want of organisation in the distribution of food and other stores.

There are now 2,557 inhabitants of the camp, of whom 1,015 are sick and wounded soldiers.