from
the mine. As the compound, containing over two thouÂsand natives, was
close to the fort and in the direct line of fire, all
these men were taken down into the open mine, where they were protected by an embankment 150 feet high.
On
the same day other Boer guns commenced to bombard Kimberley from a
ridge nearly five thousand yards distant. The British guns replied
intermittently with a few shots. Kimberley had no ammunition to waste.
The distances were so great that the little popguns in the Kimberley
forts frequently " turned turtle," owing to the great elevation at
which they had to be fired in order to carry the distance. The
projectiles fell more like
