see the energy with which he discharged his rifle with one hand.  He was in the van of the storming party at Spion Kop, where a bullet passed completely through his chest.  He continued, however, to work his rifle between his knees and to shoot with his left arm, and was one of the first men to reach the summit of the hill, where he snatched the rifles from the hands of two British soldiers.  After the battle was won he was carried to a hospital by several other burghers, but a month afterwards he was again at the front at the Tugela, going into exposed positions and shouting, “Come on, fellows, here is a good chance!” His companions desired to elect him as their field-cornet, but he refused the honour.

Evert Le Roux and Herculaas Nel, of the Swaziland Police, and two of the best scouts in the Boer army, were constantly engaged in recklessly daring enterprises, none of which, however, was quite equal to their actions on April 21st, when the vicinity of Ladysmith had been in British hands for almost two months.  The two men went out on patrol and by night crept up a kopje behind which about three hundred British cavalrymen were bivouacking.  The men were twenty miles distant from their laagers at Dundee and only a short distance from Ladysmith, but they lay down and slept on the other side of the kopje, less than a hundred yards from the cavalrymen.  In the morning the British cavalry was divided into three squads, and all started for Ladysmith.  Le Roux and Nel swept down toward the last squad, and called, “Hands up,” to one of the men in the van.  The cavalryman promptly held up his hands and a minute afterward surrendered his gun and himself, while the remainder of the squad fled precipitately.  The two scouts, with their prisoner, quickly made a detour of another kopje, and appeared in front of the first squad, of whom they made a similar demand.  One of the cavalrymen, who was in advance of the others, surrendered without attempting to make any resistance, while the others turned quickly to the right and rode headlong into a deep sluit.  Le Roux shot the horse of one of the men before he reached the sluit, loaded the unhorsed man on one of the other prisoner’s horses, and then pursued the fleeing cavalrymen almost to the city-limits of Ladysmith.

Major Albrecht, the head of the Free State-Artillery, was one of the bravest men in General Cronje’s commando, and his display of courage at the battle of Magersfontein was not less extraordinary than that which he made later in the river bed at Paardeberg.  At Magersfontein Albrecht and two of his artillerymen operated the cannon which were located behind schanzes twenty feet apart.  The British had more than thirty cannon, which they turned upon the Boer cannon whenever one of them was discharged.  After a short time the fire became so hot that Albrecht sent his assistants to places of safety, and operated the guns alone.  For eight hours the intrepid Free State artilleryman