There are no skeletons, every body has the skin drawn tightly
over the bones. The amount of valuable property destroyed is
painful ; there are over fifty waggons lying scattered all over the
place, some in most extraordinary positions where the oxen had
run away with them, and a most wonderful amount of miscel-
laneous property, papers and books no end — ^this too after the
place has been visited over and over again by parties of men
whose looting propensities are proverbial. Hundreds of tins of
preserved meats, milk, jam, &c., perfectly uninjured, are kicking
about the place, and hundreds of others just pierced by assegais.
Brushes and boots are a feature. It really is astonishing the
amount of things it is thought necessary for a British army to
drag about with them. It has never been noticed I believe.
Burying the dead at Isandwhlana, 2 1 9

what a suitable monument the Isandwhlana hill is for the 24th
Begiment. It is yery much in the form of the Egyptian Sphinx,
which is their badge ! "

Lieutenant Boyston, commanding the Natal Carbineers,
writing from Landmann's Drift, on the 22nd June, 1879, gives
the following interesting details as to the finding of those mem-
bers of the corps who were killed on the 22nd January : —

'' We arrived at the camp about nine o'clock, and commenced
at once to bury the dead just where they lay. We buried
Lieutenant Scott, Troopers Davis, Borain, Lumley, Hawkins,.
