On limbers 70 7-pounders. 
  In Scotch carts 172
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                                   Total 242
          
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The rifle ammunition used was that supplied by the Maxim firm for their guns and also pellet powder.

The powder used with the 12-1/2-pounder was that known as ‘ballistite.’  Rocket signals and limelights were carried, but not used.

EQUIPMENT CARRIED.

On the Person. (a) Rifle (10 rounds). (b) Bandolier (60 rounds). (c) Haversack (1/2 day’s ration). (d) Water-bottle filled.

On the Saddle. (a) Nosebag (5 lb. grain). (b) Cloak on wallet. (c) Rifle bucket. (d) Patrol tin (with grocery ration). (e) Leather axe-holder (every fourth man).

Near-side wallet, 30 rounds and 1/2 day’s rations.

Off-side wallet, 20 rounds, tin dubbin, hold-all, and towel.

Average weight carried by horse = 16 stone.

Average weight carried by Scotch carts = 1,600 lb.

Footnotes for Appendix H

{55} The letters are published in their proper place, and readers can satisfy themselves as to whether they justify the above inference.

{56} Note.  July, 1899.  In the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons (No. 311 of 1897), page 298, are the following:—­

Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman:  “Did you understand that you were to meet a considerable force at Krugersdorp coming from Johannesburg?”

Sir John Willoughby:  Not when we started from Pitsani, but certainly after the letters received from the cyclists.

APPENDIX I.

MANIFESTO.

If I am deeply sensible of the honour conferred upon me by being elected chairman of the National Union, I am profoundly impressed with the responsibilities attached to the position.  The issues to be faced in this country are so momentous in character that it has been decided that prior to the holding of a public meeting a review of the condition of affairs should be placed in your hands, in order that you may consider matters quietly in your homes.  It has also been decided that it will be wise to postpone the meeting which was to have taken place on the 27th December until the 6th day of January next.

On that day you will have made up your minds on the various points submitted to you, and we will ask you for direction as to our future course of action.  It is almost unnecessary to recount all the steps which have been taken by the National Union, and I shall therefore confine myself to a very short review of what has been done.

THE THREE PLANKS.