A more ambitious fork was manufactured from fencing wire, and had sometimes even as many as four prongs.

A skillful man would so arrange the meat on his spit as to have alternate pieces of fat and of lean, and thus get what we used to call a _bout span_.[3] The burghers utilized the flour supplied to them in making cakes; these they cooked in boiling fat, and called them _stormjagers_[4] or _maagbommen_.[5] Later on, the British, finding that by looting our cattle they could get fresh meat for nothing, were no longer forced to be content with bully-beef.

They then, like ourselves, killed oxen and sheep; but, unlike us, were very wasteful with it.

Often, in the camping places they had vacated, we found the remains of half-eaten oxen, sheep, pigs, and poultry.
But I shall not go further into this matter.

I leave it to other pens to describe how the British looted our property, wantonly killed our cattle, and devastated our farms.