. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . OUR SHELTER — EAST OUR SHELTER—WEST SIDE. THE RUSH FOR SHELTER 135 consolation was that death must have been in-stantaneous, and he could have felt no add to the strangeness of it all, one of thehotel servants was in the room at the sametime and he was not touched. The poor chaps wife was away in America,so the De Beers Comipany arranged to have thebody embalmed as well as they could and haveit soldered up in an air-tight coffin, in orderthat he might be taken home and buried lateren. This accide
. Besieged by the Boers; a diary of life and events in Kimberley during the siege . OUR SHELTER — EAST OUR SHELTER—WEST SIDE. THE RUSH FOR SHELTER 135 consolation was that death must have been in-stantaneous, and he could have felt no add to the strangeness of it all, one of thehotel servants was in the room at the sametime and he was not touched. The poor chaps wife was away in America,so the De Beers Comipany arranged to have thebody embalmed as well as they could and haveit soldered up in an air-tight coffin, in orderthat he might be taken home and buried lateren. This accident, as you may well im^agine,cast a heavy gloom over us, for everybody knewand liked the man, and none of us could helprealising that his own turn might come next. All this day, besides the work on privateshelters, big public shelters v/ere being miadewherever there were convenient places. Thesewere made by the Be Beers Companys boysand the natives who were working on the roadsfor the Relief Committee. Most of the sheltersvrere made in the sides of the debris heaps whichwere almost all over the town; a
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