By 8 A.M., more or less, Wagon Hill and Wagon Hill West had received, or saw coming, reinforcements of a half battalion of infantry and two fresh squadrons of the Imperial Light Horse.

The Boers, however, were also pushing men up.

Under these conditions no further advance was tried from either line, but the firing continued incessant and unpitying.

By 10 A.M.the British force had so increased that the Boer fire was considerably slackened.
While these things were happening on the west, Caesar's Camp had been also the scene {p.244} of a contest--serious, and for a moment apparently doubtful.

At no time, however, was the peril here as great as on Wagon Hill.