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which had already made several attacks upon the burghers. This attitude of the Kaffir population was
producing a very dispiriting effect upon the burghers.
The women were in a most pitiable state, now that the lines of blockhouses had been extended in all
directions over the country. Sometimes the commandos had to break through the lines and leave the
women behind alone ; and when the burghers later on returned they would perhaps find that the
women had been driven from their houses, and, in some instances, treated with atrocious cruelty.
Referring to the numbers in the field, he said that there were, in the whole of the Transvaal, ten
thousand eight hundred and sixteen men, and that three thousand two hundred and ninety-six of them
had no horses. The enemy during the summer had taken many of the burghers prisoner ; and since
June, 1901, the commandos had diminished to the extent of six thousand and eighty-four men. The
burghers thus lost to them had either been killed, or taken prisoner, or had surrendered their arms.
The number of households was two thousand six hundred and forty.
The Commandant-General concluded by saying that the three greatest difficulties with which they
were confronted were their horses, their food supply, and the miserable condition of their women and
children.
Commander-in-Chief de Wet then spoke. He said he would leave it to the delegates who were
officers to make reports. They had come from far and near, and knew exactly what the condition of
things was. He, however, could state that the number of burghers in the Orange Free State was six
thousand one hundred and twenty, of whom about four hundred were not available for service. The
Basutos, he found, were more favourably inclined to the Boer cause than ever before.
“ General De la Rey,” continued General de Wet, “ like myself, does not quite know what task he has
to perform here, but he thinks with me that the duty of making reports belongs to the delegates.
However, he feels bound to state that in his divisions there is a great scarcity of everything. But
precisely the same state of affairs existed there a year ago. And when his burghers were at that time
without food—well, he went and got it for them.” (Cheers.)
General Beijers (Waterberg) then addressed the delegates,
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