Excerpt from Words by an Eyewitness: The Struggle in Natal
The success of this little work having prolonged its life beyond the expectations of the author, he feels it right to call attention again to the circumstances under which the scattered items therein were written, and to deprecate their being taken-as some have taken them-as the deliberate and well-weighed dicta of a historian writing for perpetuity. They are nothing of the kind. Their chief interest, indeed, must lie in the fact of their hurried, nay, "red-hot" composition, done without reference- books of any sort, and without leisure to marshal the crowding impressions of a campaign into form and order. So that they inevitably resemble a mob of excited soldiers in action rather than a battalion of composed and frigid guardsmen, such as one may meet tramping to their drill in Hyde Park on any summer"s morning.
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