This was done at this battle, A woman, whose cottage is in the rear of the field, north of the river, declares that all day long the wounded exme to her cottage upon each other's heels to have their wounds dressed, and, she says, the dead.in large numbers were carried upon planks placed upon the hacks of ponies northward to the Boer lines, First in the mind of the Boer jo his dead and to lie about their number. It is from their own that they most desire to hide the trath. The prisoners we took all said that only eighteen had been killed, but the deserters said the loss of life was very great and that in the river alone 100 were sunk with weights.
For my part, I shall not be surprised if we learn some day that in killed alone the Boers lost quite 300.
It is wonderful how the formation of the country aids and perhaps inspires the Boer methods of warfare. You have heard how the burgher ames to battle with two 'a poor one to exrry him to the lit, and the best steed he has to be kept fresh until it is needed to carry him swiftly away. Usually we have seen the Boers run down the far sides of the kopies they have been defending, to find their best horses knee-haltered on' the veldt, and to mount and ride thei away.
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