earth-reddened

Updated: June 8, 2025

Its belly lies no longer in the multifarious emporia along the High Street, but in the earth-reddened, half-in visible tents that bashfully mark the commissariat stores. Its brain is not the Town Hall, the best target in Ladysmith, but Headquarters under the stone-pocked hill.

G. W. (George Warrington) Steevens - From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South African War