[73] Pioneer.
[74] Nieuwjaarsfontein.
[75] A table-shaped hill.
[76] He was subsequently appointed Vice-Commander-in-Chief in Cape Colony.
[77] In the original a Kaffir word is used here. The literal meaning of the phrase is "to throw the knuckle bones"—the Kaffir equivalent for dice.
[78] Vlei—a valley with stagnant water in it.
[79] The Boer proverb is:—"Blood creeps where it cannot walk."
[80] I had appointed him in place of Commandant Truter, who had resigned.
[81] Our forethought proved later on to have been of little avail. For notwithstanding the bountiful rains which had fallen at the end of November and the beginning of January in the southern and western parts of the State we found, when we arrived there, that the grass had been entirely destroyed by the locusts. Neither could we obtain any fodder; and so the difficulty of providing for our horses was as great as ever.
[82] At this date the English had not re-garrisoned the town.