The Kaffir ration is simpler: fresh meat, 1 lb.; mealie meal, 3/4 lb.; salt, 1/2 oz.
_February 1, 1900._ How we should have laughed in November at the thought of being shut up here till February?
But here we are, and the outlook grows more hopeless.

People are miserably depressed.

It would be impossible to get up sports or concerts now.

Too many are sick, too many dead.

The laughter has gone out of the siege, or remains only as bitter laughter when the word relief is spoken.