Through a telescope we could see little black specks on the centre of the hill; they appeared to be building sangars.

The Naval Cone Redoubt, having the best telescope, report that the walls are facing this way.

In that case the black specks were probably British, and yet not even in the morning sun did we get a word of certainty.

We hardly know what to think.
In the afternoon the situation was rather worse.

We saw the shelling begin again, but no progress seemed to be made.