Identifier: besiegedbyboersd00ashe (find matches)
Title: Besieged by the Boers : a diary of life and events in Kimberly during the siege
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ashe, Evelyn Oliver
Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902 Kimberley (South Africa) -- History Siege, 1899-1900
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rs were not easy toget. When this work was done, I still wanteda lot of sacks to make the place secure, so Iwent down to Dr. Stoneys brother and gotsome from him. He had promised me a few,but I found he could let me have a lot—farmore than the boy I took with me could carry.He lent me his Scotch cart and two horses,and we tumbled the sacks in. Of course Irode home on the top of the pile, much tothe amusement of Dr. Stoney and his brother,who stood on their verandah and jeered atm^e. Dr. Stoneys only regret was that hiscamera was out of gear, as he said the sightof Kimberleys boss doctor sitting on a pileof sacks in a Scotch cart, and clad in dirtyflannels and big Boer hat, and with a littleHottentot as driver and a raw Kaffir in a redshirt as footman, was too good to be lost.One of my best patients cut me dead onthe way up, as he did not recognise me,though nobody worried much about clothesthese times. With the fresh lot of sacks, the boysfinished up the fort in style. I had been in
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XTbe IRusb tor Sbelter 175 too many stuffy forts that week to neglectventilation in my own, so I built in a strongiron grating opposite to the entrance, in aplace where it was practically impossible forany bit of shell to come, and it answeredsplendidly. There was a nice through currentof air all the time. When the miner tookhis boys away, he said : I dont know any-thing about shells, but if the whole housefalls on that fort, it wont hurt. That was my view too. If the big gun keptin the same place, we were absolutely safe ; butif they started others in different quarters, wemight not feel so happy. The fort was sevenfeet square and seven high, so my six feetthree had heaps of room in every direction.Agnes pinned sheets and big bath-towels allround the walls inside, and brought ourbedding and mattresses down into it, with alooking-glass, a clock, some books, a box ofsweets, and all sorts of other gear, and we hadprovisions close by if things were really bad,so when we had pinned a phot

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