AT GREYTOWN.

Colonel E. C. Bethune, 16th Lancers.
Bethune's mounted infantry.
Natal Police.
Umvoti Mounted Rifles.
Two 7-pr. Field guns, Natal Field artillery.
Two Naval 12-pr. 8-cwt. guns.
Detachment mounted infantry.

LINES OF COMMUNICATION.

2nd battn. Lancashire Fusiliers.
1st " Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
Natal Royal Rifles.
Colonial Scouts.
Durban Light Infantry.
Natal Field artillery.

GLOSSARY.

BAD A spring, bath.

BERG A mountain.

BILTONG Dried meat.

BOER Literally farmer; often used as generic term for a
Dutchman of South Africa.

BRANDWACHT An outpost, or picket; literally beacon or camp fire.

BULT A ridge in a rolling down country; literally a hump.

BURG A town; literally a borough.

BURGHER A male inhabitant of one of the Boer Republics who
possessed full political rights.

BUSH Country covered in a varying degree with trees and
undergrowth.

BUSHVELD Generally used in the Transvaal in reference to the low
veld, in contrast to the high veld of the south and east
and the bushveld of the north-east and north.

COMMANDANT Senior officer of a commando; a commander.

COMMANDEER To requisition for military service.

COMMANDO A Boer military force of any size, usually the fighting
force of one district.

CORPORAL Assistant to a Veld-Cornet (q.v.).

DONGA A cutting made on the surface of the ground by the action
of water--sometimes filled with water, often dry.

DOPPER A sect, religious, and to some extent political, among the
Boers.

DORP A village.

DRIFT A ford.

FONTEIN A spring; literally a fountain.

HOEK A re-entrant in a range of hills; literally corner; also
used for pass and ravine.

HOOFD An adjective signifying head or chief.

HOUT Wood.

IMPI A Zulu army.

INDABA Native council.

INDUNA Zulu, or Kaffir, chief.

INSPAN To attach transport animals of any kind to their
vehicles--to get ready to march--to harness-up.

KLOOF Ravine, a gorge; literally a cleft.

KOP A hill; literally head.

KOPJE A small hill.

KRAA