His men, a pallid ragged crew, emerged from their holes and burrows, and delivered up their rifles.

It is pleasant to add that, with much in their memories to exasperate them, the British privates treated their enemies with as large-hearted a courtesy as Lord Roberts had shown to their leader.

Our total capture numbered some three thousand of the Transvaal and eleven hundred of the Free State.

That the latter were not far more numerous was due to the fact that many had already shredded off to their farms.

Besides Cronje, Wolverans of the Transvaal, and the German artillerist Albrecht, with forty-four other field-cornets and commandants, fell into our hands.