But nothing else could be made out, except that the Boer ambulances were very busy driving round.
Among ourselves the chief event was the feverish activity of the Telegraph Hill big gun.

Undeterred by our howitzers, he continued nearly all morning throwing shells at every point within sight.

By one supreme effort, tilting his nose high up into the air, he threw one sheer up to the Manchesters on Caesar's Camp--a range of some 12,000 yards, the gunners say.

Perhaps he was trying to make up for the silence of his Bulwan brother.

It is rumoured that Pepworth Hill is to have a successor to the "Long Tom" of earlier and happier days.