CHAPTER V.
BATTLE OF TINTA INYONI LADYSMITH, _October 27, 1899_.
If you want to "experience a shock," as the doctors say, be with the head of a column advancing leisurely along a familiar road only six miles from camp, and have a shell flung almost at your feet from a neighbouring mountain top.

That was my fortune about the breakfast time of peaceable citizens last Tuesday morning.

A squadron of Lancers and some of the Natal Carbineers were in front.

Just behind me a battery was rumbling along.

A little knot of the staff was close by, and we were all just preparing to halt.