Status Updates From Trekking On: A Boer Journal...

The Eas Africa campaign is so fascinating.

'In South Africa, however, the commandeering of supplies in time of trouble is part and parcel of our military system, and the Heilbron insurgents had at any rate shown a sense of humour, for most of their requisition notes were endorsed: "Payable to bearer by the winning side".'

"Their grim jest, 'My wife and children died in the concentration camps, my home is burnt down and my cattle gone, but otherwise there is nothing to complain of,' was a fair illustration of what many of them had suffered, and of their unbroken spirit."