Three hundred feet up hill we came upon a medium battery whose guns were located in absolutely shellproof rock casements equipped with small loopholes.

Shellproof dugouts and shelters thirteen to twenty feet under ground had been captured in the attack, and these were impervious to the French artillery.

Inside the pā were trenches, covered walkways and shellproof underground shelters roofed with strong timbers, packed earth and galvanised roofing iron.