His junior, Denniss, went out to look for him, and quickly shared his fate.

So, after hours of steadfast bearing, died these gallant lads--not in vain.

With them fell also fifteen out of their thirty sappers, wounded, but not all slain.
At 4 P.M.a rain-storm of exceptional violence, even for South Africa, burst over the ridge.

In the midst of it the Boers on Wagon Hill West, whose numbers had increased beyond the British knowledge, again attempted a forward movement; again, so the accounts say, waverers were found on the British side; again their officers called them together; charge threatened was met with charge effected, and for the last time.

Before {p.246} the levelled bayonets the enemy turned and fled down hill to return no more.
The same opportunity of tempest was taken by the assailants on Wagon Hill to mass their forces.