Behind the cover of the rocks the dhoolies were waiting with their green-covered stretchers.

In the sheltered corner on the flat ground below stood the ambulance waggons ready.

All the ambulance service was admirably worked that day, but I think perhaps the highest credit remains with the mild Hindoos.
By twelve o'clock the low hills in our front were burning from our shells, and the smoke of the grass helped still more to conceal this baffling enemy of ours.

It was all very well for the gunners, with their excellent glasses, but the ordinary private could hardly see anything to aim at, and yet he was more or less under fire all the time.

As to smoke, of course the smokeless powder gives the Boers an immense advantage in their method of fighting.