Otherwise the enormous landscape lay at peace.

I have never seen it so clear--the precipitous barrier of the Basuto mountains, lined with cloud, and still touched with snow: the great sculptured mountains that mark the Free State border: and then the scenes which have become so familiar to us all--Elands Laagte, Tinta Inyoni, Pepworth Hill, Lombard's Kop, and the great Bulwan.

Turning to the south we looked across to the nearer hills, beyond which lie Colenso, Estcourt, and the road to Maritzburg and the sea.

It is from beyond those hills that our help is coming.
The Boers have many estimable qualities.

They are one of the few admirable races still surviving, and they conduct this siege with real consideration and gentlemanly feeling.