By this time a path had been cut through to the palm grove and from it to the umbrella tree.

The only alternative to this was that the original umbrella tree had disappeared, and this I did not want to believe.

Some travellers have called it the umbrella tree, but the piece of furniture called a dumb-waiter exhibits a more striking picture of it.

There was some heavy musketry fire during the night at a reconnaissance party sent out from Ladysmith towards Umbrella Tree Hill.