Finally the last of the great Creusot guns, the formidable Long Toms, was found mounted near Haenertsburg.

It was the same piece which had in succession scourged Mafeking and Kimberley.
The huge gun, driven to bay, showed its powers by opening an effective fire at ten thousand yards.

The British galloped in upon it, the Boer riflemen were driven off, and the gun was blown up by its faithful gunners.

So by suicide died the last of that iron brood, the four sinister brothers who had wrought much mischief in South Africa.

They and their lesson will live in the history of modern artillery.
The sweeping of the Roos-Senekal district being over, Plumer left his post upon the River of the Elephants, a name which, like Rhenoster, Zeekoe, Kameelfontein, Leeuw Kop, Tigerfontein, Elands River, and so many more, serves as a memorial to the great mammals which once covered the land.