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Ch. 20: The Mines Besieged

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254 THE DIAMOND MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA
iron fence which surrounded the race-course was taken down and carted to the various fortifications.
Barriers were constructed around Kimberley to check any sudden attack upon the town. The roads leading from the town were strongly guarded and barricaded with barbed-wire entanglements, with mining trucks filled with earth, and with camelthorn trees. Of late years the outskirts of Kimberley had begun to assume quite a parklike appearance, by the growth of young trees from the roots and stumps of those that had been
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