e food, the diet, and the extraordinary sion of cartridges, und cartridge-wrap-were all mixed together, but the earth and the disorder were not so offense ive a the grimy, beastly condition of the dead.
'A fow commanding breastworks had been twuilt us for x citadel on the crest of the have the ring of the eyries.
ne of these T found a young Boor 1 bullet hole in his forehead, Ho was of a superior type, intelligent of face, neatly dressed, and had been shooting with gloy-# on his hands, Had he lived to escape hw would have been one of the very great many Boers who were soon fying down the farther side of the range of kopies and leaping upon their horses or into their Cape corta and "spiders." They had done what damage they could to us, and, now that their own lives were endangered, they commanded their subordinates to remain, and sought their own safety. This is ace cording to Boer principles—in keeping with the etiquette aul conventions of a people who know neither etiquette nor convention in war. It is not by guesswork that thus describe their methods, It is what our prisoners have told me.
I could write steadily for a week (and if thre were no such strict censorship as fotters me) I could not exhaust the list of peculiarities, eccentricities, anomalies, and novelties of this war waged against us by undisciplined force of rebels who are soldiers by instinct,
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