Another came through two bedrooms in the hotel, and spoilt the look of the smoking-room.

But I think the only man killed was a Carbineer, who had his throat cut by a splinter as he lay asleep in his tent.
Just after midnight a very unusual thing happened.

Each of the Boer guns fired one shot.

Apparently they were trained before sunset and fired at a given signal.

The shells woke me up, whistling over the roof.