The Boers now stretch wires with bells across the paths, and it goes hard with any runner caught.
_January 11, 1900._ The enemy was ominously quiet.

Bulwan did not fire all day.

From King's Post, whilst visiting the new fortifications and the guns in their new positions all about it, I watched the Boers dragging two field guns hastily southward along the western track, perhaps to Springfield Drift, over the Tugela.

Then a large body--500 or 600--galloped hurriedly in the same direction.
A sadness was thrown over the day by Lord Ava's death early in the afternoon.

If he could have recovered the doctors say he would have been paralysed or have lost his memory.