For I am a news man now, and have to collect horrid facts and hosts of casualties and to find out whether it was the Dubblins or the Durbans that did it and what it was they did.

I was in terrible fear that I would be too late to see the relief of Ladysmith but I was well in time and saw a fight the first few hours I arrived.

It is terribly big and overwhelming like eighty of Barnum circuses all going at once in eighty rings and very hard to understand the geography.

The Tugela is like a snake and crosses itself every three feet so that you never know whether you have crossed it yourself or not.

Every one is most kind and I am as comfortable as can be.