[4] Stream between Camp and village; it only had running water, though, after rain.
[5] Mr. Van As's eldest daughter.
[6] Sannie Otto was the bosom friend of Sarah van As. Sarah has since died.
[7] My father was for many years minister at Colesberg, and my uncle again at Fauresmith.
[8] Some friends at Durbanville subscribed about £20, with which I had bought some invalid food, to take down with me from Cape Town (beef tea, Benger's Food, jelly, arrowroot, dozen bottles of port). While visiting the sick I noted down the most distressing cases, and after the day's work I made a final round to these tents with some of this invalid food.
[9] Pieter de Lint, an old College friend.
[10] Our Hymnary is divided into Psalms and Evangelical hymns (Psalmen en Gezangen).
[11] I decided to note down always in diary my text for the address at the gravesides. Our people expect the pastor to give an address before reading the Burial Service.
[12] What with water to be carried, rations to be fetched, wood to be brought and chopped, food to be cooked (in the open), bread to be baked, washing to be done (not to speak of the menial sanitary duties), it was indeed hard for a mother (herself perhaps weak), with a number of sick children, to keep her tent clean.
[13] Van Huysteens. The mother was shot while they were fleeing before the English. There was a babe of five months.