We saw no one for several hours except some Kaffir Kraals and we almost ran into two herds of deer.

I counted twenty-six in one herd, they were about a quarter of a mile away.

We came to a cross road and I decided to put back as we had lost track of the river and were bearing straight into the English lines.

Just as we found the river again and had got across a drift cannon opened on our right.

We then knew we were in between the Boers and the English but we had no other knowledge of our geographical position.