This camp lay about six miles to the south-east of the point where we first saw it.

Another great camp stood about seven miles to the north-west.
The enemy could see us clearly, as it was open veldt, with only a few bushes cropping up here and there.

We now rode on in the direction of Wolhuterskop, which is close to the Magalies Mountains.

I thought I should thus be able to reach the great road from Rustenburg to Pretoria, which was eight or nine miles from the footpath across the Magaliesberg.
When we were about two miles east of Wolhuterskop we suddenly came upon two English scouts.

One of them we captured; and he told us that there was a great force of the enemy in front of us and marching in our direction.