354 REMINISCENCES OF 



Lancers, Lovat's Scouts, Tasmanians, Cape M. 

 Rifles (very nice) and Connaught Rangers, G.F.C. 

 and 7 guns, about 2,000 men. We marched to 

 Jamestown next morning, two days' march, then on 

 to the Nek, where we parted from the column and 

 came into Aliwal North for a few days' rest. Then 

 the rest went out again and we were left. I came 

 here for a few days to give the man who was here 

 leave and return in about three hours. I should like 

 to see the cutting from the Radleian that Llewellyn 

 wrote. We were great friends. It was me that 

 brought in the prisoner you mention. I suppose you 

 saw about the havoc that was wrought at Stormberg 

 lately. I was so sorry poor Lyons was killed. He 

 was at Harrow and only nineteen ; and Blandy, a 

 friend of mine, was killed at Molteno. 



" Please tell Uncle C. how glad I am, but he is 

 all wrong about concentration camps. Most of the 

 people have the habits of hogs and the morals of 

 mice, and refuse to be clean. In their own houses 

 the whole family sleep in one bed, and the guest 

 too if he likes, and in camp they refuse to do other- 

 wise." 



In August, 1901, we were at the hydropathic at 

 Peebles, and there met Sir Robert Menzies ; very 

 lame but as cheery as ever. He was one of the best 

 walkers in Scotland until quite lately, and when 

 ordered to resign the command of his volunteers, 

 being superannuated, he offered to race any man up 

 Schiehallion, and was allowed to go on ! 



