It was work for mounted police, not for infantry soldiers, but what they were given to do they did to the best of their ability.

Settle's men had a similar thankless task.

From the neighbourhood of Kimberley he marched in November with his small column down the border of the Orange River Colony, capturing supplies and bringing in refugees.

He fought one brisk action with Hertzog's commando at Kloof, and then, making his way across the colony, struck the railway line again at Edenburg on December 7th, with a train of prisoners and cattle.
Rundle also had put in much hard work in his efforts to control the difficult district in the north-east of the Colony which had been committed to his care.

He traversed in November from north to south the same country which he had already so painfully traversed from south to north.