operating tent, in which Dr. Smyth was attending to a wounded man,
had two bullet-holes through it. One tent had four bullet-holes.
Part of the seat of one of our ambulance baggage wagons had the red
cross on its right side cut clean away by a shell. Pieces of shell
struck the wheels of our ambulance wagon, and one of our Cape
Medical Staff Corps was slightly wounded in the foot by a segment
of a shell while close to the ambulance wagon. We had one mule
whilst in harness cut in two by a shell and three mules wounded, so
that they had to be shot. One mule was shot while tied to an
ambulance wagon bearing the red cross; shrapnel and common shell
were fired. It was considered absolutely necessary to cast up a
parapet as a protection from the shot and shell fire, and we all
threw off our coats, and with pick and shovel worked away until
about midnight casting up earthworks.

[Illustration: SOLDIERS' HOME ON THE FIELD.]

'The firing ceased at dusk. The men slept in their positions in the
ridges, and without either food or water. At eight p.m., hearing
that Captain Kelly was slightly wounded in the head, we scaled the
heights, and took him and some of his men a little water; but it
was very little. Still he seemed grateful. He would not leave his
men, but slept with them on the ridges. In stumbling over boulders
amongst the bushes on the ridges, whom should I meet but the Earl
of Rosslyn, who had escaped from the Boer lines, and had come
into our camp in the afternoon. He had rather a rough time of it,
for our men, not knowing who he was, and mistaking him for an
enemy, fired upon him, but fortunately without effect. He very
kindly told me that I might sleep in his buggy, which was near the
ambulance party. However, I did not avail myself of his kind offer,