Belts and straps, swords, sheaths and hilts, guns and waggons, are all painted khaki colour. After enumerating all the weapons used by the belligerents, it would be an unpardonable omission to say nothing of the famous dum-dum bullets. Have they been much used? Yes, certainly, and on both sides. The story that the Boers only used those they had captured from the English is quite inadmissible, for the Mauser rifles, which were used exclusively in the Transvaal, were largely provided with them. I will try to describe the patterns chiefly used: 1. Section in the nickel casing, leaving the extremity of the leaden bullet exposed; the lead, getting very hot, emerges partly from the casing, flattens at the slightest resistance, and expands. 2. Four longitudinal sections in the nickel casing allow the bullet to flatten at the moment of contact, and to exude lead through the apertures. These two first patterns, the ones most in use, are made for Lee-Metford and Mauser rifles. The English also use hollow-nosed bullets, the extremity of which is cut or rubbed off. The Boers, for their part, have manufactured solid projectiles, which show the lead through a straight section, and have the four longitudinal slits. A few expansive Lee-Metford cartridges, hollow, and filled with fulminate, certainly existed, but I do not believe that they were ever in general use. I need not insist upon the terrible injuries inflicted by all these projectiles. I have seen the whole of the back of a man’s hand carried away by a bullet entering the palm, where it had only made a hole of the normal dimension. During this war, in an arid country without any towns, Tommy has suffered terribly. Accustomed to the comfort of English barracks and to abundant meals, he was ill-prepared to spend his nights on the hard ground in cold and rain, with stones that bruised his ribs for his only bed, and half a biscuit for his dinner. Now that we have inspected the English army, let us see what it has accomplished since our arrival. First of all in Natal. In January, Ladysmith was still invested. The garrison of nearly 10,000 men and the inhabitants were decimated more by disease than by the occasional shells the Boers threw into the town every day as a matter of duty. Provisions had become scarce. An officer’s ration was two biscuits and 240 grammes of horseflesh a day. A dozen eggs cost £2 8s.; a dozen tomatoes, 18s.; a tin of preserved meat, £3; a tin of condensed milk, 10s.; a pot of jam, £1 11s.; a quarter of a pound of English tobacco, £3; a case containing a dozen bottles of whisky, £140, nearly £12 a bottle. Nevertheless, a newspaper published by the besieged, the _Lyre_, is still facetious. It publishes the following notes: