CAMERON AND HERBERT SHOT. 5 1 could do to keep them awake. Yet as the attack grew hotter the parapet in front of the men was built higher, and in some places boxes were so piled as to intercept the slanting fire, while a few men were sent out to occupy a knoll which might otherwise have been taken advantage of by the enemy. Thirty brave guardsmen volunteered for this duty, and each carried something to form a breastwork, so that a post was established there.

Inside the principal intrenchment, or seriba, men were falling, and at a little after ten in the morning Sir Herbert Stewart, who was passing round to see whether the men were getting breakfast, was struck by a bullet just above the groin, and so seriously wounded that he had to be immediately carried to the hospital, where the surgical staff, in spite of their fatigue and the continued demand made upon their exertions, were doing their duty with a noble courage and devotion.

Almost at the same time that the general was struck Mr.

Cameron, the war correspondent of the Standard, was mortally wounded in the back, and soon afterwards Mr. St. Leger Herbert of the Morning Post was shot dead, and Mr. Burleigh of the Daily Telegraph was wounded but not severely. He was one of the first of the volunteers to carry the boxes, &c., to form the breastwork to protect the men who were to occujay the knoll already mentioned, and it was a troublesome job, as the journey was for about forty j'ards under fire. Afterwards, when the party of the 2nd Life Guards and Greys under the command of Lord Cochrane were sent to build up the breastwork so that it was converted into a redoubt, the work was done under a still warmer fire in which officers and men with some of the sappers were actively working. The construction of another redoubt to protect the hospital was nearly as dangerous, for bullets were flying about from all directions, while boxes had to be carried inward from the redoubt which had been made in front of the seriba. There was great difficulty in getting about among the camels, and it was some time before the men who were to form the square for the advance could muster after leaving the redoubts so far completed as to be finished by the