But I cannot resist saying here that the English only learnt the art of scouting during the latter part of the war, when they made use of the Boer deserters--the "Hands-uppers." These deserters were our undoing.

I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name--the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world.
[Footnote 10: About nine miles: distance reckoned by average pace of ridden horse--six miles an hour.] [Footnote 11: Clear off.] [Footnote 12: Hill.] [Footnote 13: Literally, watch-fire men.

They were the furthest outposts, whose duty it was to signal by means of their fires.] [Footnote 14: Pioneers.].