. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . below thesurface, and well as I knew the mine I was as-tonished to see how different it looked whenfull of people. They were in the large cham-ber cut in the rock, past one end of which theshaft runs. It is about twenty feet high andthirty or forty wide, and leads away into themine at the far end. The whole place was lighted up as usual withelectric light, and was fairly cool, but it wasjust packed with people. Most of the childrenhad been laid down to sleep on the rugs andblankets or mattresses they had brough
. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . below thesurface, and well as I knew the mine I was as-tonished to see how different it looked whenfull of people. They were in the large cham-ber cut in the rock, past one end of which theshaft runs. It is about twenty feet high andthirty or forty wide, and leads away into themine at the far end. The whole place was lighted up as usual withelectric light, and was fairly cool, but it wasjust packed with people. Most of the childrenhad been laid down to sleep on the rugs andblankets or mattresses they had brought withthem, and these things just covered the for a passage down the whole lengthof the chamber there did not seem to be aninch of space. I moved about gingerly forfear of treading on somebody, and saw a fewpeople who had little troubles or wanted toknow how things were up above, but the peoplewere as good as gold, and did not make a singlecomplaint. Many of the babies were a littlefeverish from the draughts, which were un-avoidable, and from the rather close atmos-. \ ,.»srf ^X
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