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All day the line undulated forward, and by evening yet
another strip of rock-strewn ground had been gained, and yet
another train of ambulances was bearing a hundred of our wounded
back to the base hospitals at Frere. It was on Hildyard's Brigade
on the left that the fighting and the losses of this day
principally fell. By the morning of January 22nd the regiments were
clustering thickly all round the edges of the Boer main position,
and the day was spent in resting the weary men, and in determining
at what point the final assault should be delivered. On the right
front, commanding the Boer lines on either side, towered the stark
eminence of Spion Kop, so called because from its summit the Boer
voortrekkers had first in 1835 gazed down upon the promised land of
Natal. If that could only be seized and held! Buller and Warren
swept its bald summit with their field-glasses. It was a venture.
But all war is a venture; and the brave man is he who ventures
most. One fiery rush and the master-key of all these locked doors
might be in our keeping.


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