The enemy was in a safe country once more.

Whose the fault, or whether there was a fault at all, it is for the future to determine.

At least unalloyed praise can be given to the Boer leader for the admirable way in which he had extricated himself from so many dangers.

On the 17th., moving along the northern side of the mountains, he appeared at Commando Nek on the Little Crocodile River, where he summoned Baden-Powell to surrender, and received some chaff in reply from that light-hearted commander.

Then, swinging to the eastward, he endeavoured to cross to the north of Pretoria.