Whether any of the women and children were killed or wounded I was unable to ascertain, but it was horrible to see the bombs bursting over their heads.

Thus the women again fell into the hands of the enemy.
With four of my adjutants and Piet Fourie, I succeeded in driving away quite one thousand five hundred head of cattle.

The bombs fell heavily on them also, but I got them safely away.

Late that evening we arrived at the spot where we had left President Steyn, only to find that he had gone away.

He had been obliged to retreat before the force which the previous evening had been at Duminy Drift, and which had passed near him during the day.