Excerpt from The Relief of Ladysmith
I am indebted to the proprietors of the Manchester Guardian for permission to reproduce the following letters and several of the plans and sketches which illustrate them. I have thought it better to leave the letters as nearly as possible in their original form; they are simply unofficial dispatches, written in camp under all the difficulties that oppress the pen in the neighbourhood of the sword. If in speculations or assertions I have gone astray, I venture to let the mistakes stand. The reader, recognising them, will allow them a certain historical value as the common beliefs of the moment, or will pin his faith to them only until he finds them rebuked in later chapters.
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