It is not for us to say that all this was unnecessary. It is for others
to judge. You cannot conduct war in picnic fashion. The country ought to
know its horrors and get its fill of them. But we will not attempt the
description. Already others have done that. Suffice it to say that the
baggage camp, in which were the chaplains and some of the doctors,
seemed an oasis in the desert to these agonized travellers.

The day for parade services had gone by, and all days were now the same;
but there was other work the chaplains could do, and this they attempted
to the best of their ability.

[Illustration: BRINGING BACK THE WOUNDED.]

The Rev. E.P. Lowry wrote:--

'Yesterday a long convoy arrived bearing over 700 sick and wounded
men. They were brought, for the most part, over the rough roads in
open waggons (captured from the Boers) from the fatal front, where
days before they had been stricken more or less severely. They
still had a long journey before them, and it so happened that they
set out from here in the midst of a thunderstorm; but as I passed
from one waggon to another I found them bearing their miseries as
only brave men could. About 300 of them belonged to the unfortunate
Highland Brigade. One of these had been shot through the wrist of
his left hand at Magersfontein, and he was now returning shot
through the wrist of his right hand. The next, said he, with
gruesome playfulness, will be through the head. Corporal Evans, of
the Gloucesters--one of two brothers whose name is much honoured at
Aldershot--I found in the midst of this huge convoy stricken with