an ounce.
During a siege one realises how much more than bread, meat, and water is required for health.

Flour and trek-ox still hold out, and we receive the regulation short rations.

Yet there is hardly one of us who is not tortured by some internal complaint, and many die simply for want of common little luxuries.

In nearly all cases where I have been able to try the experiment I have cured a man with any little variety I had in store or could procure--rice, chocolate, cake, tinned fruit, or soups.

I wonder how the enemy are getting on with the biltong and biscuit.
_January 19, 1900._ Before noon, as I rode round the outposts, I found the good news flying that good news had come.