"T venture to think ita matter of considerable importance to draw attention to the attitude of the Boers whom we met during the carrying-out of our duties on these three days. After collecting all the identification papers, letters, and personal property of the fallen, and whilst waiting for the graves to be dug, we chaplains were umoceupied, and therefore had plenty of time to talk to the Boers around us. For my part, L confess t i jon has been made ions, and by the a and, outs which we were met. The were two things T particularly noted.
As there was no effort made to impress us suid (they spoke with transparent honesty and natural simplicity, and in nearly all cases the conversations were begun by us), so there was a total absence of anything like exultation over what they must consider a military success. Not a word, not a look, not a gesture or sign, that could by the most sensitive of persons be construed asa display of their superior
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