That line is like a horseshoe, ten to twelve miles round.
The chief attacks were directed against the Manchesters in Caesar's Camp (we are very historic in South Africa) and against a mixed force on Observation Hill, two companies of the Rifle Brigade, two of the King's Royal Rifles, and the 5th Lancers dismounted.

The Manchesters suffered most.

Since the investment began the enemy has never left them in peace.
They are exposed to shells from three positions, and to continual sniping from the opposite hill.

It is more than a week since even the officers washed or took their clothes off, and now the men have been obliged to strike their tents because the shells and rifles were spoiling the stuff.
The various companies get into their sangars at 3 a.m., and stay there till it is dark again.

Two companies were to-day thrown out along the further edge of their hill in extended order as firing line, and soon after dawn the Boers began to creep down the opposite steep by two or three at a time into one of the many farms owned by Bester, a notorious traitor, now kept safe in Ladysmith.