20/34 Four pounds of oatmeal sold for 11s.6d.A four-ounce tin of English tobacco fetched 30s. Out of our original numbers of about 12,000 nearly 3,000 are now sick or wounded at Intombi, and there are over 200 graves there. More helpers are wanted, and to-day Colonel Stoneman summoned 150 loafers from their holes in the river-bank, and called for twenty volunteers. No one came, so he has stopped their rations till they can agree among themselves to produce the twenty ready to start. From King's Post I watched the stretch of plain--Six Mile Flats, the official map calls it--leading away to Potgieter's Drift, where his troops are probably crossing. |