Yet whenever we picked up reports of engagements in the camping places of the English we repeatedly saw that they had taken a Boer camp--and their greatest delight was to say that it was one of De Wet's convoys.
They could not have been convoys of mine, because for the last fifteen months I had had no waggon-camp with me.

If a waggon-camp was taken, it could only have been one consisting of women, who were flying in order to escape capture by the English, and to avoid being sent to the concentration camps.

Everywhere in the State the women were taking to flight, and their terror was increased tenfold when the news came that many a woman and child had found an untimely grave in these camps.
The troops which had not remained with the pack-horses now advanced towards the mountain.

Each commando was ordered to ride by itself, and to leave in single file.

My orders were that they were to march quietly to the western foot of the mountain; here the horses were to be left behind, and the climb made on foot, the burghers keeping the same order as that in which they had been riding.