Totals 432,372 352,864 104,012 _From South Africa:_ To United Kingdom, Colonies, India, &c., including Boer prisoners 372,320 2,460 -- Grand Total 804,692 persons. 459,336 animals. The tonnage of stores carried to South Africa was as follows, exclusive of wagons, guns, baggage, and equipment accompanying the troops, and of the vast quantities of supplies delivered by contractors from abroad at rates inclusive of freight: In the Transports 4,990 tons. Otherwise 1,369,080 tons. Total 1,374,070 tons. [Sidenote: Numbers of ships.] The number of specially engaged ships employed on the work was as follows: No. Transports engaged by the Admiralty 117 Transports engaged in India 41 ---- 158 Troop freight ships: Outwards. {Engaged by Admiralty 115 {Engaged by Colonial Governments 13 Homewards. {Engaged by Admiralty 104 {Engaged by P.T.O., South Africa 21 ---- 253 Remount freight ships: Engaged by Remount Department 107 Engaged by Admiralty 201 ---- 308 Mule Freight Ships engaged by Admiralty 98 Full Cargo Freight Ships engaged by Admiralty 210 ---- 1,027 Nearly all the transports made several voyages, and some of them were in continuous employment for over three years, and went to the Cape and back as many as ten times besides coastal and colonial voyages. [Sidenote: Tonnage, transports and owners.] [Sidenote: Report of Royal Commission.] The 210 full cargo ships carried 974,000 tons of the stores, besides 3,745 oxen. The remainder was conveyed in running ships at current rates. The transports engaged by the Admiralty were the property of thirty-six owners, mostly Liverpool or London firms; their average size was 6,400 tons gross, ranging from 12,600 to 3,500 tons, the range of speed from nineteen to eleven knots. The proportion of tonnage per man and per horse turns out, over the whole, four tons per man, twelve and a half tons per horse. This estimate is made by calculating the tonnage per man on the infantry ships alone, and allowing for the men at that rate by casting out the tonnage per horse over the transports which conveyed both men and horses. The following is an extract from the report of His Majesty's Commissioners appointed to enquire into matters in connection with the war in South Africa, dated 9th July, 1903, pp. 125, 126. "TRANSPORT BY SEA.