Voyage out on the _Tantallon Castle_--Some Military Hospitals near Cape Town--We land in Natal 143 XXVII Inoculated against Typhoid--We begin to build our Hospital--Increased from 100 to 200 beds--Unpacking--A Hospital Ship at Durban 149 XXVIII Our Food Supplies--Washing Arrangements--Snakes and other Creatures--A Railway Accident--Our First Patients 156 XXIX The Princess Christian Hospital Train brings us some Bad Cases--Men from Elandslaagte--Some Officer Patients--The Bishop of Pretoria 162 XXX Dengue Fever amongst the Staff--First Death amongst the Officer Patients--Mafeking relieved--Our Hospital officially "Opened"--Colonel Galway--The Trappist Monastery 169 XXXI A Spion Kop hero--Orderlies knocking up with Enteric--Worsted work, &c., to amuse the Convalescents--Death of an Orderly from Enteric--Poem by Officer Patients 175 XXXII Some distinguished Visitors--We become a Military Hospital--New Orderlies arrive--"Imperial Bearer Company" men--Our Major 183 XXXIII Changes on our Staff--The Arrival of Sick Convoys--Our Servants--The Hospital Commission--The Difficulties of Transport 189 XXXIV I visit the Battle-fields--At Colenso--Ladysmith--Up Spion Kop--Tin Town Hospital--On a Red Cross Ambulance 196 XXXV The Tugela Falls--Pieter's Hill--Hart's Hill--Chieveley--Mooi River--Maritzburg--Back at Pinetown 203 XXXVI Prisoners from Pretoria--Our Gardens--We start Poultry Keeping 209 XXXVII The Natal Volunteers return home--"John"--Flying Ants and other Plagues 215 XXXVIII The Buckjumper--The Excellence of the Boer Ponies--The Home for Lost Dogs! 221 XXXIX Sudden Orders for Home--Voyage with Lord Roberts on the _Canada_--Call at Cape Town--A Funeral at Sea 228 XL Lord and Lady Roberts visit the Hospital--Christmas at Sea--We anchor off Cowes--Lord Roberts visits Queen Victoria at Osborne--Sixteen days' leave--Rejoin the _Canada_ to return to the Cape 235 XLI The Death of Queen Victoria--Lodgers at Wynberg--The Plague at Cape Town--Up the Coast with Boer Prisoners 242 XLII Up Country--Under Canvas--The Sisters' Horses 249 XLIII Our Tent Flooded--A Cow shares my Tent--Night Duty in the Rainy Season--Afternoon Duty 256 XLIV In Charge of Medical Tents--A Present from the Queen--Within Sound of the Guns--"Kit Inspection"--The Horrors of Transport in the Ambulance Waggons 263 XLV