But for the purposes of war the garrison was useless.

A month of rest and food would be necessary before they could be ready to take the field once more.
So the riddle of the Tugela had at last been solved.

Even now, with all the light which has been shed upon the matter, it is hard to apportion praise and blame.

To the cheerful optimism of Symons must be laid some of the blame of the original entanglement; but man is mortal, and he laid down his life for his mistake.

White, who had been but a week in the country, could not, if he would, alter the main facts of the military situation.