The guns shelling Pepworth Hill--there were two batteries of them now--were still at their work, just in front of our left now and about half a mile away.

Away to our right and further advanced, but quite exposed in the open, were two other batteries, shelling some distant kopjes on our right at the foot of the great mountain lump of Lombard's Kop.

I heard afterwards they were shelling an empty and deserted kopje for hours, but I know that only from hearsay.

Between the batteries and far away to the right the infantry was lying down or advancing in line, chiefly across the open, against the enemy's position.

But what was that position?
Take Ladysmith as centre and a radius of five miles, the Boers' position extended round a semicircle or more, from Lombard's Kop on the east to Walker's Hoek on the west, with Pepworth Hill as the centre of the arc on the north.