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1900 - From the diary of Major George Tatham, Natal Carbineers
 
Buller's concert still going finely.

Wet afternoon. Sent letters out. Rain continued, slight showers all night, our men report Boer wagons moving off westwards.

1900 - Diary of the siege of Mafeking by Edward Ross

Saturday, 24 February

Raining all day, all trenches and dugouts swamped, but no grumbling in town because good water so badly wanted.

Very little firing except in early morning when one of the natives was slightly wounded.

No news at all. We ought soon to get some now the dark nights are coming on again.

A man (Volunteer) at the brickfields today had a very narrow escape. A Mauser bullet coming clean through one of the sandbag portholes struck him on the side of the head, passed round the skin to the back of the scalp, through the top of his shoulder, and then out, and could be heard whistling away into the town. McKenna also had a narrow squeak the other day, a bullet carrying away his shoulder strap.