"My only reason for leaving it", he wrote, "was the fact that I found myself facing a month of idleness.

Had General Buller continued his advance immediately after his relief of Ladysmith I would have gone with his column and would probably have never seen a Boer, except a Boer prisoner." Royal Hotel, Durban, Natal.
April 5th, 1900.
DEAR MOTHER: We arrived here to-day and got off in a special tug together.

We did the basket trick all right, although the next time it came down a swell raised the tug and fractured every one in the basket except Sangree and Rogers, the two New York correspondents who were hanging on by the upper edges.

Cecil loved the place which is the Midway Plaisance of cities and we had a good lunch and managed to get into the hotel where there are over twenty cots in the reading room, and hall.

The Commandant objected to our going to Praetoria and seemed inclined to refuse us passes to leave Durban for Delagoa Bay.