All this with the most simple earnest courtesy.

He said "No English woman would dare do what you are doing." He showed us a farin house on a kopje about five miles off where he said we could get shelter and where we would be near the fighting on the morrow.

We rode in the moonlight for some time but when we reached the house it was filthy and the people were in such terror that we decided to camp out in the veldt.

We found a grove of trees near by and a stream of water running beside it so we made a fire there.

We had only one biscuit left but several cans of bacon and tea.