. Besieged by the Boers : a diary of life and events in Kimberly during the siege. tories were stillBritish, in spite of the Boer proclamation. Kekewich is the colonel in command of theLancashires ; he is a Devonshire man, thoughhis name does not sound like it, and is asplendid fellow. Everybody likes him. Heis the head of the whole business, and musthave an anxious time, as he is responsible foreverything. I think I told you that a biglook-out had been put up on top of the mostcentrally situated mine-head gear. This mustbe about a hundred and twenty feet above thestreet level, and gives a spl
. Besieged by the Boers : a diary of life and events in Kimberly during the siege. tories were stillBritish, in spite of the Boer proclamation. Kekewich is the colonel in command of theLancashires ; he is a Devonshire man, thoughhis name does not sound like it, and is asplendid fellow. Everybody likes him. Heis the head of the whole business, and musthave an anxious time, as he is responsible foreverything. I think I told you that a biglook-out had been put up on top of the mostcentrally situated mine-head gear. This mustbe about a hundred and twenty feet above thestreet level, and gives a splendid view of allthe surrounding country ; and here the colonelspends most of his day, watching what theBoers—and our own men too, for that matter—are up to. The top of this tower is in tele-phonic communication with all the forts, sothat orders are sent from it to all points withgreat rapidity. At night there are strong electric searchlightsin commanding positions at the forts, and theyare at work during all the dark hours, so thatit is impossible for the Boers to make any. l-yi,m II phi,li,li liy M. Ikiiiiill.] THE SKARCIt- AM) , [Pai;i: i6. Uhc Boers Stride 3fitst 17 advance without its being at once seen. Thatis the advantage of having an immenselywealthy company like De Beers in the place,rhey have skilled mechanics and electricians,and machinery and appliances, to do almostanything, and a jolly mess we should havebeen in without them. As a matter of fact,though, we should never have been besiegedbut for the mines. The Boers openly gaveout that they wanted to take Rhodes prisonerand to blow up his mines, and did not wishto injure anybody else. After the first alarm the De Beers peoplebrought in all or a great part of their cattlefrom their outlying farms, and herded aboutfifteen hundred of them just outside failed to do much by cutting off ourwater supply, the Boers thought they wouldnext try for our food supply, and I supp
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