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Frederic Maurice, Richard Trench, John Kemble, Spedding, Venables, Charles Buller, Richard Milnes and others: I have heard that in speaking and arguing, Sterling was the acknowledged chief in this Union Club; and that "none even came near him, except the late Charles Buller," whose distinction in this and higher respects was also already notable.
Uncle Buller made no reply. He was not fond of Mrs. Minchin, and he never disputed a point with her. One topic of the day was "sales." We all had to sell off what we did not want to take home, and the point was to choose the right moment for doing so. "I shan't be the first," said Aunt Theresa decidedly. "The first sales are always failures somehow. People are depressed.
We may, therefore, hope for victory even against numbers. But even if Sir Redvers Buller finds positions as strong as that at Colenso, the Boers will probably be baulked of their prey, the garrison of Ladysmith. Sir George White has with him the flower of the British Army, and he does not mean to be reduced by degrees to the extremity of famine and helplessness.
He does not seem to have recognized that Bergendal was not a mere strong post, but the key of an unsound position which should at all hazards have been safeguarded. This Buller saw at once, and he moved so as to meet with the least interference from the enemy, who, having two fronts, could not act solidly upon either of them. The capture of Bergendal dissolved the Boer position.
The cessation of the music of war during the armistice dismayed the garrison of Ladysmith, which feared that it must indicate another failure; for owing to spies and the leakage of plans, Buller was afraid of informing White fully of his position and intentions, and during the final advance he usually restricted himself in his heliograms to the expression of his hopes or to the reasons for their non-fulfilment.
Buffalo, Italian, mode of fighting of the. Buffon, on the number of species of man. Bufo sikimmensis. Bugs. Buist, R., on the proportion of the sexes in salmon; on the pugnacity of the male salmon. Bulbul, pugnacity of the male; display of under tail-coverts by the male. Bull, mode of fighting of the; curled frontal hair of the. Buller, Dr., on the Huia; the attachment of birds.
Instead of a mere rearguard to be driven in, as Buller had fondly believed, a strongly posted line, extending nearly four miles S.W. from Wynne's Hill, had to be attacked. The enemy had been so much encouraged by the failure of Coke's movement, that Botha telegraphed to Kruger that he had hopes of a "great reverse."
We were obliged, therefore, to "borrow" all these things for the banquet befitting to the occasion. But General Buller had not quite finished with us yet. He marched on Spion Kop, but with the exception of a feint attack nothing of importance happened then.
"No, no," he said slowly, "that's not my connection with Farrell Wand. What happened afterward? What did they do with him?" Kerr was silent, and Flora thought his face seemed suddenly at its sharpest. It was Clara who answered with another question. "Didn't he get to the colonies? Didn't he die there?" Judge Buller caught it with a snap of his fingers.
We were now expecting every day to hear that he had assumed the chief command over the English army encamped between Estcourt and Colenso. The number of troops there was continually increasing owing to the reinforcements which kept pouring in from over the ocean. Great things were expected of Sir Redvers Buller, to whom the Boers, by a play of words, had given a somewhat disrespectful nick-name.
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