It is very likely.

The staunch old prophet and patriot would hardly stay away when the issue involves the existence of his people.
But when the Kaffirs go on to say that Kruger, Joubert, and Steyn stood together on Mount Moriah (Loskop) to witness the battle, the addition may be only picturesque.

It would be well if that were the worst fiction credulity swallowed.

One of the head nurses from Intombi told me to-day that the Boers had bribed an old herbalist--she thought at Dundee or somewhere--to reveal a terrible poison, into which they dipped their cartridges, and even the bullets inside their shrapnel! To this she attributed the suppuration of several recent wounds.

Of the garrison's unhealthy condition she took no account whatever.