Of late the numbers have been increasing by forty or fifty a day, allowing for those who return or die.

The graves to-day number eighty-three, and a gang of forty Kaffirs is always digging.

Outside the military, the majority of the refugees are Kaffirs and coolies, the white civilians only numbering 600 or 700.

Colonel Stoneman had all, except the sick, paraded in groups, and assigned separate tasks to each--nursing for the whites, digging and sanitation for the Kaffirs, cooking and skilled labour for the coolies.

One important condition he made--every one required to work is also required to take his day's wage.