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We have just got back from a long march through the Lydenburg Mountains, by Lydenburg, Spitz Kop & Pilgrim's Rest. I tell you, it was a terrible rough road, but we kept the enemy on the move all the time. They are so badly broken up now that you might say the war is over.

When we got here the day before yesterday, Gen. Buller left for home. Before leaving, he addressed a few words to each of the regiments under his command. He told us that he had orders to break up the Natal Field Force & return home. He then said he had spent some of the happiest months in the Can Northwest & that, when he heard at the beginning of the war, that there were men coming from there to the front, he did his best to get some of them under his command. He thought for a long time that he was not going to succeed, but, at last had his wish fulfilled when we joined him. Since then, he said, we had proved as brave, willing & useful a body of men as he could have wished to have. He then wished us goodbye and goodluck & you may depend we gave him three hearty cheers. We have a splendid brigade general also, viz, Lord Dundonald. He is a soldier & a gentleman in every sense of the words.