From the south Bruce Hamilton, Hickman, Thorneycroft, and Haig swept upwards, stripping the country as they went in the same way that French had done in the Eastern Transvaal, while Pilcher's column waited to the north of the barbed-wire barrier.

It was known that Fourie, with a considerable commando, was lurking in this district, but he and his men slipped at night between the British columns and escaped.

Pilcher, Bethune, and Byng were able, however, to send in 200 prisoners and very great numbers of cattle.

On April 10th Monro, with Bethune's Mounted Infantry, captured eighty fighting Boers near Dewetsdorp, and sixty more were taken by a night attack at Boschberg.

There is no striking victory to record in these operations, but they were an important part of that process of attrition which was wearing the Boers out and helping to bring the war to an end.