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Ch. 20: The Mines Besieged

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THE MINES BESIEGED                         269
with great precision, riddling the gamekeepers' houses, behind which the Boers had taken shelter, and soon driving them to the rocky ridge beyond.
Hearing that the guns and regulars had gone out, I drove to
a position north of Kenilworth, where this part of the engage­ment was in full view. Captain May fired eighty rounds at the Boers, and his men behaved splendidly under a rain of bullets from the enemy, only a thousand yards distant. Out of a total of twenty-six men and eighteen horses, he had seven men wounded, three horses killed and nine wounded. Gunner
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