At nine o'clock, having advanced eight or nine miles, the whole column took up a strong position, with all its baggage and train in faultless order, and went to sleep.

About one we began to return, and now just as the mail goes, we are all back again in camp for tea.

And so ends the first day of active hostilities.
[Illustration: GENERAL SIR GEORGE STEWART WHITE, V.C., G.C.I.E., G.C.B., G.C.S.I.].