Some lay quite still.

I heard only two or three call out for help.

Meantime the rest were keeping up a steady fire, not by volleys, but as each could sight a Boer among the rocks, and my own belief is that very few Boers were hit that way.
Climbing up a heap of loose stones a little to the right of the Devons, I could now see the Boers at the top of their position in the centre, moving about rapidly, taking cover, resting their rifles on the stones, and firing both at us and at the men who were pushing up the slope threatening their flank.

Meantime the artillery pumped iron and lead upon them without mercy.

Their own guns were quite silenced about this time, being unable to stand the combined shell and rifle fire.