Everywhere houses were burnt down or destroyed with dynamite.

And, worse still, the furniture itself and the grain were burnt, and the sheep, cattle and horses were carried off.

Nor was it long before horses were shot down in heaps, and the sheep killed by thousands by the Kaffirs and the National Scouts, or run through by the troops with their bayonets.

The devastation became worse and worse from day to day.

And the Boer women--did they lose courage with this before their eyes?
By no means, as when the capturing of women, or rather the war against them and against the possessions of the Boer commenced, they took to bitter flight to remain at least out of the hands of the enemy.