At the northern point of Korannaberg, Commandant Hasebroek remained behind, waiting for some of his men to join him.
We took with us one Krupp with sixteen rounds--that was our whole stock of gun ammunition! By the afternoon of the 16th we had advanced as far as Springhaansnek.
The English had built a line of forts from Bloemfontein to Thaba'Nchu and Ladybrand.

And just at the point where we wanted to pass them, there were two forts, one to the south and the other to the north, about 2,000 paces from each other, on the shoulder of the mountain.
My first step was to order the Krupp to fire six shots on one of these forts; and, very much to the credit of my gunners, almost everyone of these shots found its mark.

Then I raced through.
All went well.

The only man hit was Vice-Assistant-Commandant Jan Meijer, of Harrismith, who received a wound in the side.

He was shot while sitting in a cart, where he had been placed owing to a wound which he had received a few days before, in the course of a hot engagement, which General Philip Botha had had at Ventersburg Station.
We now rode on through Rietpoort towards Dewetsdorp, staying, during the night of the 17th of November, at a place on the Modder River.