Such being the case we decided to outspan and lunch.

Out-spanning is setting the mules and horses at liberty, in-spanning trying to catch them again.

It takes five minutes to out-span, and three hours to in-span.

We had Armour's corned beef and Libby's canned bacon.

Cecil cooked the bacon on a stick and we ate it with biscuits captured by our Boer friends at Cronje's farm from the English Tommies.