When I think of those ragged camps of peasants just over the border the pomp and circumstance seem all on one side.
_Friday, October 13, 1899._ So it has begun at last, for good or evil.

Here we think it began yesterday, just at the very moment when Sir George White arrived.

Late at night scouts brought news of masses of Boers crossing the Tintwa Pass, and going into laager with their waggons only fifteen miles away to the west.

The men stood to their arms, and long before light we were marching steadily forward along the Van Reenen road.

First came the Liverpools, then the three batteries of Field Artillery with a mountain battery, then the Devons and the Gordons.