Though their backs were against the wall, seven were wounded, and three others badly bruised.

Two cases are serious: Lieutenant P.
Dent had part of his skull taken off, and Lieutenant Caffin had a compound fracture of the shoulder-blade.

Lieutenant Cane, an "orficer boy," who only joined on Black Monday, was also wounded in the back.

The dhoolies quickly came and bore the wounded away to the Wesleyan Chapel.
Mr.Dalzell was buried in the afternoon.

"Well, well," sighed the old gravedigger, "I never thought I should live to bury a man without a head." To-day, for the first time, we heard that Lord Roberts had lost his only son at Colenso.