It seems a pity we did not know this before.' Miss Hobhouse supplies some rather similar testimony.

In her Report she says: 'The Mafeking Camp folk were very surprised to hear that English women cared a rap about them or their suffering.

It has done them a lot of good to hear that real sympathy is felt for them at home, and I am so glad I fought my way here, if only for that reason.' "In what particular way Miss Hobhouse had to fight her way to the Camps does not appear, for she acknowledges the kindness of Lord Kitchener and Lord Milner in enabling her to visit them; we must therefore suppose that they provided her with a pass.

But the sentence just quoted is enough in itself to furnish the answer to the third question--'Is it right for the public at home to supplement by gifts of additional comforts and luxuries the efforts of our officials to make Camp life as little intolerable as possible ?' All kinds of fables have been told to the Boer men and women of the brutality and ferocity of the British.

Let them learn by practical experience, as many of them have learnt already, that the British soldier is gentle and generous, and that his women-folk at home are ready to do all in their power to alleviate the sufferings of the innocent victims of the war.