Though daylight comes a little after four, the operations were not commenced before seven.
Lyttelton's Brigade had stormed the hill at two, and nothing more was done during the long evening, while officers chafed and soldiers swore, and the busy Boers worked furiously to bring up their guns and to bar the path which we must take.

General Buller remarked a day or two later that the way was not quite so easy as it had been.

One might have deduced the fact without the aid of a balloon.
The brigade then occupied Vaalkranz and erected sangars and dug trenches.

On the morning of the 6th, the position of the British force was not dissimilar to that of Spion Kop.

Again they had some thousands of men upon a hill-top, exposed to shell fire from several directions and without any guns upon the hill to support them.