I am very much afraid they are throwing up a battery there.

I was in hopes they would have begun in the open, because we could have commanded the approaches; but if they begin among the trees, they can come in and out without our seeing them, and bring up their guns by the road without our being able to interfere with them.
Mr.Bathurst, will you take down word to Captain Doolan to put his men on the platforms on that side.

Tell him that I am going to throw up a rocket, as I believe they are erecting a battery near Hunter's bungalow, and that his men are to be ready to give them a volley if they can make them out.

Tell them not to expose themselves too much; for if they really are at work there no doubt they have numbers of men posted in the shrubs all about to keep down our fire.

Now, gentlemen, we will all lie down by the parapet.