Diary of a tour in South Africa . unch we were introduced to the guide to thedistrict, a Mr. Cauldfield, who is an officialof the Natal Government: a military-lookingman, with the elegant and inspiring title of* Curator of Graves, whose office is to seethat the numberless graves on the battlefieldsof Natal are kept in decent order. We drove in two Cape carts under his guid-ance to visit Waggon Hill and Caesars Camp,both the scenes of fierce fights, and crowdedwith the graves of the fallen. This was ourfirst experience of a rough drive, the latter partof it being practically roadless. In drivin
Diary of a tour in South Africa . unch we were introduced to the guide to thedistrict, a Mr. Cauldfield, who is an officialof the Natal Government: a military-lookingman, with the elegant and inspiring title of* Curator of Graves, whose office is to seethat the numberless graves on the battlefieldsof Natal are kept in decent order. We drove in two Cape carts under his guid-ance to visit Waggon Hill and Caesars Camp,both the scenes of fierce fights, and crowdedwith the graves of the fallen. This was ourfirst experience of a rough drive, the latter partof it being practically roadless. In drivingback to our car, we went into the EpiscopalChurch, which has been enlarged as a memorialto the fallen, the walls of the transepts of whichare covered with tablets containing the namesof all the men who had been killed in action, orhad died of disease during the siege, and itwas an appallingly long list (3,200). We alsovisited the Town Hall, which still shews traces LADYSMJTH. FROM COSVKNT HILL. \M ) XfOhX^N AW \\l .^^ (\ K \. SPION KOP.
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