The Boer snipers had crept up into Brooks's Farm, beyond the Harrismith railway, and were firing at the heads of our men on Junction Hill.

Whenever they missed the edge of the hill the bullets fell on my cottage.

At last some guns opened fire from our Naval battery on Cove Redoubt.

Captain Lambton had permitted the Natal Naval Volunteers to blaze away some of their surplus ammunition at the snipers.

And blaze they did! Their 3-pounders kept up an almost continuous fire all the morning, and hardly a sniper has been heard since.