In the same way another boy, twelve years old, whose name I do not know, was dragged from his mother's arms.
The chronicling of such inexplicable cruelties I leave to other pens.

I have drawn attention to them to make it clear that it was not without good cause that children joined the commandos.

Some of these little ones became a prey to the bullets of the enemy, and the South African soil is stained by the blood of children slain by England.
With the exception of the sad incidents I have described, we came through in safety.
I afterwards heard that Lord Kitchener had on this occasion gone to Wolvehoek Station in order to see President Steyn and myself carried away in the train to banishment! But his calculations were not altogether correct.
A Higher Power had willed it otherwise.
The burghers had now returned to their own districts.

I myself went to a farm in the neighbourhood of Elandskop belonging to Mr.Hendrick Prinsloo--the _rooije_.[103] After I had been there a few days I heard that a strong column was approaching Lindley from Kroonstad.

During the night of the 17th of February this column attacked some burghers who were posted less than four miles from Elandskop, with the object--as I heard later--of catching me.