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1878 (29 Apr.) letter to his mother, headed "Camp Baillie's Grave".
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We left King this morning and here we are 16 or 18 miles off going to attack at dawn tomorrow: I'm in command of my company since Glennie was wounded and have lots of work. Goodnight Mother dear - I'm weary and must rest - God bless you.
Saturday 4th May
Well Mother dear, we went out and Colonel Wood's 90th came the other side and volunteers and various others and we beat through the thick forest all day. The 90th lost Lieut. Saltmans (buried yesterday in King) and some men and Capt. Stevens wounded, bullet lodged in left cheekbone and he may die poor fellow.
Sunday 5th May
Well Mother, here we are "Camp Dead Man's Drift". Drift is a ford and the deadman was a Kaffir who was shot and left in the water for days - we went out on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and "waylaid" all Thursday night, returning to camp next day. And on Saturday came on here where we have pitched our camp and are waiting to attack the Perie Bush. Miles of dense forest on the rocky hills full of ravines (called Kloofs) and cliffs and crags (called Krantzes). Waylay is the term for going out after dusk and lying down between any two points in a long line and shooting anyone passing, thereby blocking the way. For instance we hear 200 or 300 Kaffirs are trying to enter the Perie Bush from the East or to leave it from the South, well, we go out and spread out across their probably route and pot some and the rest turn back - we took some hundred cattle and 500 women and killed a couple of hundred men on Tuesday. The rest (we could see hundreds) escaping goodness know how or where! They seem surrounded yet get through.
We left King this morning and here we are 16 or 18 miles off going to attack at dawn tomorrow: I'm in command of my company since Glennie was wounded and have lots of work. Goodnight Mother dear - I'm weary and must rest - God bless you.
Saturday 4th May
Well Mother dear, we went out and Colonel Wood's 90th came the other side and volunteers and various others and we beat through the thick forest all day. The 90th lost Lieut. Saltmans (buried yesterday in King) and some men and Capt. Stevens wounded, bullet lodged in left cheekbone and he may die poor fellow.
Sunday 5th May
Well Mother, here we are "Camp Dead Man's Drift". Drift is a ford and the deadman was a Kaffir who was shot and left in the water for days - we went out on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and "waylaid" all Thursday night, returning to camp next day. And on Saturday came on here where we have pitched our camp and are waiting to attack the Perie Bush. Miles of dense forest on the rocky hills full of ravines (called Kloofs) and cliffs and crags (called Krantzes). Waylay is the term for going out after dusk and lying down between any two points in a long line and shooting anyone passing, thereby blocking the way. For instance we hear 200 or 300 Kaffirs are trying to enter the Perie Bush from the East or to leave it from the South, well, we go out and spread out across their probably route and pot some and the rest turn back - we took some hundred cattle and 500 women and killed a couple of hundred men on Tuesday. The rest (we could see hundreds) escaping goodness know how or where! They seem surrounded yet get through.