I felt sure, however, that my commandos would be allowed no rest by the enemy as long as the President and I were with them.
Accordingly I planned that as soon as we got to the north of Winburg he and I should absent ourselves from the commandos for some time, while I proceeded to arrange certain matters (to be set down in a later chapter) by which I hoped to effectually "settle"[77] the English.
On our arrival at a certain farm to the south of Senekal we discovered that General Knox was once more at our heels.

We had several small engagements with him, in one of which a son of Commandant Truter, of Harrismith, was killed.
On the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1900, we left the farm, and rode on to the Tafelkop, nine miles to the west of Senekal.
[Footnote 76: He was subsequently appointed Vice-Commander-in-Chief in Cape Colony.] [Footnote 77: In the original a Kaffir word is used here.

The literal meaning of the phrase is "to throw the knuckle bones"-- the Kaffir equivalent for dice.].