Mrs.Fraser was delighted to see me, and reported the Boers all departed after a temporary occupation, so there I settled down for another period of weary waiting.
FOOTNOTES: [26] The Boers used better ammunition later.
[27] Boer national flag.
[28] Clergyman.
[29] Mr.Murchison was shut up in the gaol awaiting Lord Roberts's confirmation of his sentence.

When Eloff succeeded in entering Mafeking many months later, the former was liberated with the other prisoners, and given a rifle to fire on the Boers, which he did with much effect.

I believe he was afterwards taken to a gaol in the Isle of Wight, but I do not know if his life-sentence is still in force.
[30] This gentleman on a later occasion again attempted to leave Mafeking on horseback, and was taken prisoner by the Boers and sent to Pretoria, leaving the _Daily Mail_ without a correspondent in Mafeking.
At the request of that paper I then undertook to send them cables about the siege..