GREAT BRITAIN. 



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Fig. 13. — The Boer inn — behind the scenes. 



Fig. 14.— The pit, with men who "work" the innkeeper. 



We climb anotlier kopje and come under the fire of a battery, just visi- 

 ble in the far distance, craftily concealed under the shadow of a wood. 

 "We hear an explosion; it is the 15-pounders opening fire. Halloa! one of 

 its deadly messages drops and explodes less thaii 20 yards in front of us. 

 Shrapnel covers (sic) our advance, but undaunted we move ahead 

 unswerving toward the coveted goal. 



