The punishment for looting was prompt and stern.

It is true that farms were burned occasionally and the stock confiscated, but this was as a punishment for some particular offence and not part of a system.
The limping Tommy looked askance at the fat geese which covered the dam by the roadside, but it was as much as his life was worth to allow his fingers to close round those tempting white necks.

On foul water and bully beef he tramped through a land of plenty.
Lord Roberts's eight days' halt was spent in consolidating the general military situation.

We have already shown how Buller had crept upwards to the Natal Border.

On the west Methuen reached Hoopstad and Hunter Christiana, settling the country and collecting arms as they went.
Rundle in the south-east took possession of the rich grain lands, and on May 21st entered Ladybrand.