But as General Froneman was himself able to take quite as good positions, I only gave him the same number of troops as I had assigned to Commandant Steenekamp.

I also gave orders that two guns should proceed with him.
I was informed that there were only one hundred of the English at Roodewal, but that these hundred were very securely entrenched.

My information was, however, at fault, for I discovered later on that there were at least double that number.
I arrived at Roodewal very early in the morning of the 7th of June.

I brought my men up to within eight hundred paces of the station, and ordered them to unharness the horses which were attached to the Krupp, and to place it in position.
But listen! There is the crack of rifles in the distance! That must be the sound of the enemy's fire on General Froneman.

Again, and yet again, the sound meets my ears.