. Besieged by the Boers : a diary of life and events in Kimberly during the siege. I got near 14 JBcsiCQC^ bv tbc Boers the barrier I saw carts being stopped, so Isaid to the man on guard, Are you goingto stop me too ? Yes, he said, unless you have a permit. May I leave my cart here and walk, overthere to see the patient ? No ; if you have no permit, neither younor the cart can pass. So I said, All right, orders are orders ; Iwill go and get a pass. The joke was that the man on guard wasa patient of my own and knew me well, buthe was quite right. On more than one occasion Rhodes hasbeen stoppe
. Besieged by the Boers : a diary of life and events in Kimberly during the siege. I got near 14 JBcsiCQC^ bv tbc Boers the barrier I saw carts being stopped, so Isaid to the man on guard, Are you goingto stop me too ? Yes, he said, unless you have a permit. May I leave my cart here and walk, overthere to see the patient ? No ; if you have no permit, neither younor the cart can pass. So I said, All right, orders are orders ; Iwill go and get a pass. The joke was that the man on guard wasa patient of my own and knew me well, buthe was quite right. On more than one occasion Rhodes hasbeen stopped at the barrier, and asked forhis permit ; and at one barrier, where theorders were to search everybody, the guardstopped him and told him that he wouldhave to be searched. Rhodes fumed andblustered, and said he had never heard ofsuch insolence, but the guard was firm ;so Rhodes burst out laughing and produceda permit to pass the barrier without beingsearched. He was just trying it on. What-ever else he may be, he is no coward ; hegoes through the barrier and rides far out on. IIIK CONNINU-TOWEK. [/ ilj^f M. XTbe Boers Stride iftrst 15 the veldt almost every afternoon with onlyone or two friends and no escort at all. Healways wears white flannel trousers, and ismost conspicuous. Nothing could save him ifa Boer chose to lie in wait and pot him witha long-range shot ; and as the Mauser riflewhich the Boers use carries well over a mile,the shooter could be well in amongst his ownpeople long before any of ours could get achance at him. That this could easily happen is shown bywhat did happen on October 20th. A patrolof the Mounted Volunteers (Diamond FieldsHorse) was out scouting early in the morning ;no Boers were seen anywhere about, when ashot was fired, and one of the sergeants felloff his horse—dead. The men hunted every-where round about, but could not find a signor footprint of anybody. The modern ammu-nition is smokeless powder, so no smoke wasseen and no one knows who f
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