Mounted Rifles, Butterworth, 125; Xalanga Border Mounted Rifle
Club, 72; Tembuland Mounted Rifle Club, 52; Engcobo Mounted
Rifle Club, 47; Cape Medical Staff Corps, 200:--total, 5636.

This number only included volunteers, and did not take in the paid
irregular regiments, Mounted Police, and other bodies, of which there
were several thousand more. In fact, it was estimated that the Colonial
levies in Cape Colony alone numbered, at the end of 1899, about 12,000
men.

The troops in South Africa early in December, apart from the force under
Sir George White, were approximately the following:--

CAVALRY DIVISION (Lieut.-General French).--1st Brigade
(Major-General Babington)--R Battery R.H.A., 6th Dragoon
Guards, 10th Hussars, Mounted Infantry, Ammunition Column, No.
9 Field Hospital. 2nd Brigade (Major-General Brabazon)--O
Battery R.H.A., 1st Royal Dragoons, 6th Dragoons, 2nd Dragoons,
Ammunition Column, No. 12 Company R.A.M.C.

KIMBERLEY RELIEF COLUMN (Lord Methuen's
Command).--Major-General Sir H. E. Colvile's Brigade--1st Scots
Guards, 1st Coldstream Guards, 2nd Coldstream Guards, 3rd
Grenadier Guards. Major-General Pole-Carew's Brigade--1st
Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment, 2nd
Yorkshire Light Infantry, 2nd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
(half-battalion). Major-General Wauchope's Brigade--1st
Highland Light Infantry, 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders,
2nd Royal Highlanders, 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, No. 8 Field
Hospital. Naval Brigade, G and P Batteries R.H.A., 18th, 37th
(howitzer), 62nd, and 75th Royal Field Artillery, 9th and 12th
Lancers, 7th Field Company Royal Engineers, Ammunition Column,
No. 19 Field Hospital.

COLONIAL FORCES (in support of Lord Methuen).--Canadian
Contingent, New South Wales Lancers, New Zealand, South and
West Australian, Tasmanian, and Victorian Contingents.

TROOPS IN SOUTH NATAL (Lieut.-General Sir C. F. Clery's
Command).--Major-General Hildyard's Brigade--2nd Royal West
Surrey, 2nd West Yorkshire, 2nd East Surrey, 2nd Devonshire.
Major-General Lyttleton's Brigade--2nd Scottish Rifles, 1st
Durham Light Infantry, 1st Rifle Brigade, 3rd King's Royal
Rifles, No. 14 Field Hospital. Major-General Barton's
Brigade--1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers,
2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers, 2n