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Near Virginia two natives were shot, being accused of showing the British the road to Ventersburg. Report of Resident Magistrate, Taungs, December 4, 1900. Three natives murdered at Border Siding. December 18, 1900. Native, Philip, shot at Vlakplaats, eight miles south-west of Pretoria, by J. Johnson and J. Dilmar, of J. Joubert's commando.
This hard-working General, having garrisoned Zeerust and Lichtenburg, had left his old district and journeyed with a force which consisted largely of Bushmen and Yeomanry to the disturbed parts of Bechuanaland which had been invaded by De Villiers. Here he cleared the country as far as Vryburg, which he had reached in the middle of January, working round to Kuruman and thence to Taungs.
Report of Resident Magistrate, Taungs, December 24, 1900. Native shot by Boers at Pudimoe. Three natives killed at Christiana. Report of Resident Magistrate, Herschel, January 6, 1901. Two natives shot as spies. Report of Resident Magistrate, Calvinia, January 29, 1901. Esau case and ill-treatment of other natives. February 28, 1901.
From Taungs his force crossed the Transvaal border and made for Klerksdorp, working through an area which had never been traversed and which contained the difficult Masakani hills. He left Taungs upon February 2nd, fighting skirmishes at Uitval's Kop, Paardefontein and Lilliefontein, in each of which the enemy was brushed aside.
Zulu boy shot dead at Zevenfontein, between Pretoria and Johannesburg, charged with giving information to the British, by men of Field-Cornet Jan Joubert's commando. Report of Resident Magistrate, Cradock, March 21, 1901. Murder of native witness, Salmon Booi. Report of Resident Magistrate, Taungs, May 8, 1901. Natives shot by Boers at Manthe.
The total number of columns amounted to at least sixty, which varied in number from two hundred to two thousand, and seldom hunted alone. Could their movements be marked in red upon a chart, the whole of that huge district would be criss-crossed, from Taungs to Komati and from Touws River to Pietersburg, with the track of our weary but indomitable soldiers.
While we were having dinner the patrol returned from Taungs, having cut the wire north and south and destroyed the instrument. They found the village empty except for women. Encounters with insurgents are often amusing, although amongst them they have so far afforded natives of all our three kingdoms reason for shame. Here is something quite typical. SCENE: The veldt road.
DRY HARTZ, Tuesday, May 8th. The march of yesterday afternoon was not without its incidents. We came in sight of the village of Taungs at about four o'clock, our road passing ten miles to the west of it at the opposite side of the Hartz valley. I was riding with the advance guard when a man rode up from the direction of the village.
To judge by the sounds of hilarity which float from the waggon, even towards the end of a long march, their efforts are well appreciated. A patrol was sent over to Taungs, and we watched the squadron dancing away until a fold of the green plain hid them. Soon afterwards we came into camp. The paramount question at such a moment is always: "What is the water like?"
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