Enteric is not quite so bad as it was, but dysentery increases.

The numbers of military sick alone at Intombi, not counting all the sick in the camps and hospitals here, are 2,040 to-day.
_January 24, 1900._ The entire interest of the day was centred on Taba Nyama--that black mountain, commanding the famous drift in its front and the stretch of plain behind.

It is fifteen miles away.

From Observation Hill one could see the British shells bursting along this ridge all morning, as well as in the midst of the Boer tents half-way down the double peaks, and at the foot of the hill.

The firing began at 3 a.m., and lasted with extreme severity till noon, the average of audible shells being at least five a minute.