In their frequent flights they destroyed, or left for us to capture, almost fabulously large supplies of food and ammunition; yet at the end of two years of such incessant waste Kaffirs were still busy pointing out to us remote caves filled with food stuffs, as in Seccicuni's country, or large pits loaded to the brim with cases of cartridges. "With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back", - Edward P. Lowry

They were sent to the past to buy or steal treasures of various sorts- art, sculpture, jewelry, fabulously valuable manuscripts and books, anything that had great scarcity value. "The Old Die Rich", - Horace Leonard Gold