At one moment Dr.Jameson came up to get a look at his old enemy.

Then we heard heavy rifle fire far away on our left, where the Gloucesters and Royal Irish Fusiliers had been sent out the night before, and were now on the verge of that terrible disaster which has kept us all anxious and uncertain to-day.

The rumour goes that both battalions have disappeared, and what survives of them will next be found in Pretoria.

At eight o'clock I saw a new force of Boers coming down a gully in a great mountain behind Pepworth Hill.

But for my glass, I should have taken them for a black stream marked with white rocks.