Royal Artillery.--Two 7-pounder guns and rocket-battery, under
Lieutenant W.N. Lloyd, R.A.

Infantry.--2nd battalion, 3rd Buffs, under Lieutenant-Colonel H.
Parnell.

Mounted Infantry.--100 men under Captain Barrow, 19th Hussars.

Volunteers.--Durban Rifles, Natal Hussars, Stanger Rifles, Victoria
Rifles, Alexandra Rifles. Average, forty men per corps--all mounted.

Native Contingent.--1000 men under Major Graves, the Buffs.

Number Two Column.
(_Headquarters, Helpmakaar, near Rorke's Drift.)
_Commandant.--Colonel Glyn, 1st battalion, 24th Regiment.

Royal Artillery.--N. battery, 5th brigade, Royal Artillery
(with 7-pounder guns), under Major A. Harness, R.A.

Infantry.--Seven companies 1st battalion, 24th Regiment, and 2nd
battalion, 24th Regiment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Degacher.

Natal Mounted Police.--Commanded by Major Dartnell.

Volunteers.--Natal Carabineers, Buffalo Border Guard, Newcastle
Mounted
Rifles--all mounted; average, forty men.

Native Contingent--1000 men, under Commandant Lonsdale, late 74th
Highlanders.

Number 3 Column.
(_Headquarters, Utrecht.)
_Commandant.--Colonel Evelyn Wood, V.C. C.B., 40th Regiment.

Royal Artillery.--11th battery, 7th brigade, R.A. (with four 7-pounder
guns), under Major E. Tremlett, R.A.

Infantry.--1st battalion 13th Regiment, and 90th Regiment.

Mounted Infantry.--100 men, under Major J.C. Russell, 12th Lancers.

Frontier Light Horse.--200 strong, under Major Redvers Buller, C.B.,
60th Rifles.

Volunteers.--The Kaffrarian Vanguard, Commandant Schermbrucker, 100
strong.

Native Contingent.--The Swazis, our native allies, some 5000 strong.

In the first fortnight of their engagement the waggons travelled
backward and forward between Pieter-Maritzburg and Grey Town, which for
the time formed the base for the column of Colonel Glyn. The distance
of the town from the capital was forty-five miles, and as the waggons
travelled at the rate of fifteen miles a day, they were twelve days in
accomplishing two double journeys. When they were loaded up the third
time, they received orders to go straight through to the headquarters of
the column at Helpmakaar. The boys were pleased at the change, for the
road as far as Grey Town was a good one.

They reached Grey Town for the third time on the 2nd of January. Here
they found the place in a state of great excitement, a mounted messenger