Fourteen officers were killed and wounded there, and next day the killed men lay thick among the rocks.

The Boer prisoners say the Gordon kilts made them easy marks.

But the Light Horse lost, too--lost their Colonel, Scott Chisholme, who had been so eager for their success.

Still the Boers kept up their terrible fire, and the attack crept forward, rock by rock.

At the same time the Devons were called on to advance, and, getting up from the ant-hills without a moment's pause, they strode forward to the foot of the hill, keeping up an incessant fire as they went.