The Boer waggon-laagers were breaking up.

The two great lines of waggons between the plantations near Pinkney's farm were gone.

By 6.30 they were all creeping away with their oxen up a road that runs north-west among the hills in the direction of Tintwa Pass.

It was the most hopeful movement we had yet seen, but one large laager was still left at the foot of Fos Kop, or Mount Moriah.
The early morning was bright, but a mist soon covered the sun.

Rain fell, and though the air afterwards was strangely clear, the heliograph could not be used till the afternoon.