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A caption is intended to explain the picture, not the picture to explain the caption. Suppose some alien to our culture found a picture of a man with a white beard and mustache sawing a billet from a log. He would think the caption meant, 'Man Sawing Wood. How would he know that it was really 'Wilhelm II in Exile at Doorn?" Sachiko had taken off her loup and was lighting a cigarette.
On horseback I made my way in easy stages up to the Rand. Here happened one of those incidents, which, although small in itself, alters the course of one's life. What took place when I rode into a small town on the Rand known as Doorn Kloof one chilly misty morning, was written in the bowl of fate. Doorn Kloof is well named; it means "the hoof of the Devil."
Here, however, I divided the commandos. General Froneman, with the Vrede and Heilbron burghers, I sent back to cross the railway lines between the Doorn and Zand Rivers, with orders to operate in the northern districts of the State.
Thus at a skirmish at Doorn River on July 27, 1901, the seven Kaffir scouts taken with the British were shot in cold blood, and an Englishman named Finch was shot with them in the alleged belief that he had Kaffir blood.
Seven natives captured with a patrol of Imperial Yeomanry near Doorn River Hut were shot on the spot. Report of Intelligence, East Cape Colony, July 29, 1901. Shooting of natives by Commandant Myburgh. Report of Resident Magistrate, Aliwal North, July 30, 1901. Shooting of natives at refugee camp. August 23, 1901.
I took with me Commandant Lategan of Colesberg, with about one hundred and twenty men, and Commandant Jan Theron, with eighty men, and proceeded on the 10th or 11th of November across the railway line between Doorn River and Theronskoppen, with the intention of executing my plan of making an inroad into the Cape Colony.
I noticed the man, Trooper Finch, was alive. I do not know the name of the Boer who shot him, but I could recognise him again. No. 33966 Trooper F. W. Madams, having been duly sworn, states: 'I was one of the patrol captured by the Boers on 27th July, 1901, near Doorn River.
Vaalkrantz standing between Doorn Kop and the Twin Peaks, was shelled simultaneously from the left front, and the right rear, as well as from Green Hill; it seemed as if Spion Kop were about to be repeated. Buller opened on Green Hill with artillery, and on the hill north of the main hill of Vaalkrantz, in the hope of making the North Hill assailable.
A straggling collection of corrugated iron shanties set in the middle of a grayish sandy plain as barren of vegetation as the shores of the Dead Sea, sweltering hot an hour after sunrise, chilly cold an hour after sunset, populated by about four hundred Boers of the old narrow-minded ultra Dutch type with as much imagination as a grasshopper that is Doorn Kloof.
The Boer trek continued for several hours this morning and well on into the afternoon, when it slackened. Then we saw some horsemen turn back to make for the cleft ridge of Doorn Kloof, where one of the big Creusots had opened fire, Buller's naval guns or howitzers replying with Lyddite shells.
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